Amotz Asa-El

Amotz Asa-El (Hebrew אמוץ עשהאל) the former Executive Editor of the Jerusalem Post and a leading commentator on Israeli, Middle Eastern and Jewish affairs, is the Jerusalem Post's senior columnist, a senior editor of the Jerusalem Report, and Middle East commentator for Dow Jones' MarketWatch.com.

Having joined the Jerusalem Post as its Business Editor in 1995, Asa-El was later the Post's News Editor and Editor-in-Chief of its overseas edition, the International Jerusalem Post, before serving as the Jerusalem Post's Executive Editor.

In these positions, Asa-El led the Post's editorial line that blended economic conservatism, diplomatic pragmatism, political reform and cultural pluralism. As executive editor, overseeing the work of 100 writers, editors, copyeditors, designers and photographers, Asa-El oversaw the redesign of the daily Jerusalem Post, the remodeling of its weekend magazines and supplements, and the creation of an opinion desk, after having previously created a business desk and reinvented the International Jerusalem Post as an independent news weekly.