Amotz Asa-El, The Jerusalem Post’s senior commentator and former executive editor, is a research fellow at Jerusalem’s Shalom Hartman institute. Winner of the Bnai Brith Journalism Award for his series of essays on the Jewish people’s future, Asa-El has been quoted, published and interviewed along the years by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Reuters, Haaretz, Le Figaro, CNN, BBC, SKY and others. His versatile column in The Jerusalem Post, Middle Israel (www.MiddleIsrael.net), is famous for voicing mainstream Israelis’ view on anything, from national, social, and foreign affairs to politics, culture, and religion. Running continuously since 1995, it is one of the international media’s most veteran columns.