Amotz Asa-El

Amotz Asa-El is the Founding President of BusinessWeek Israel and the former Executive Editor of the Jerusalem Post.

Having originally joined the Jerusalem Post as its Business Editor (1995 -1999), Asa-El was later the Post's News Editor (1999-2000), and Editor-in-Chief of its overseas edition, the International Jerusalem Post (2000-2002), before serving as the Jerusalem Post's Executive Editor (2002-2005). In these positions, he led the Post's editorial line that blended economic conservatism, political reform, cultural traditionalism and diplomatic pragmatism. Meanwhile, Asa-El oversaw the redesign of the daily "Jerusalem Post", the remodeling of all its magazines and supplements, and the reconceptualizing of the "International Jerusalem Post" as an independent news weekly.

In 2006 Asa-El persuaded McGraw-Hill to launch an Israel-based, Hebrew-language edition of BusinessWeek, the world's most widely circulating business publication, and in January 2008 the first issue was published and circulated in Israel. Author of "The Diaspora and the Lost Tribes of Israel" and a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism, Asa-El remains the Jerusalem Post's"Middle Israel" (www.MiddleIsrael.com) columnist. Asa-El's column appears every weekend for the 14th year now, and is a unique attempt to present in English the average Israeli's view on anything, from politics and religion to culture and business.

A former member of Israel's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, Asa-El is a fellow at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem-based conservative think tank, and a lecturer at its Institute for Philosophy, Politics and Religion.