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Amichai Stein

Amichai Stein

Amichai Stein is a journalist and commentator specializing in Israeli advocacy, global Jewish affairs, and Middle Eastern politics for JNS.org. A passionate advocate for Israel, he frequently appears on radio, television, and in print to provide insightful analysis and counter media bias. From 2017 to 2024, he served as a foreign affairs and diplomatic correspondent for KAN News, covering key international developments and Israel’s role on the global stage.

People react to the fall of Syrian regime in Umayyad Square on Dec. 8, 2024 in Damascus, Syria. Photo by Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images.
Analysis
Israeli ministers instructed to ‘go dark’ on Syria
“The intelligence services are facing a huge, unprecedented challenge.”
Dec. 9, 2024
Amichai Stein
The judges and guests of the International Criminal Court at the opening of the ICC judicial year on Jan. 18, 2019, in The Hague. Credit: International Criminal Court.
Israel News
Netanyahu, Gallant should turn themselves in, ICC spokesman tells JNS
Nov. 28, 2024
Amichai Stein
MK Dan Illouz heads the Knesset's Public Diplomacy Caucus. Credit: MK Illouz Team.
Israel News
Netanyahu bypassed unflinching opposition to truce inside Likud
Nov. 27, 2024
Amichai Stein
Saudi blogger Mahmoud Saud meets with Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter (left), then chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, July 22, 2019. Credit: Israeli Knesset.
Analysis
The Democratic Party and Riyadh’s normalization demands
A Saudi civilian nuclear program is particularly unpopular.
Aug. 20, 2023
Amichai Stein
Then-President Barack Obama delivers a health-care address to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 9, 2009. Photo by Lawrence Jackson/White House.
Israel News
Democratic lawmakers say ties with Israel will survive
“I don’t think that the issue of judicial reform will undermine the relationship,” said Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio).
Aug. 9, 2023
Amichai Stein
The funeral of Simcha Damri, one of three Israelis who was killed in a March 19, 2016, suicide bombing in Istanbul, March 21, 2016. Credit: Flash90.
Israel News
Israelis and the international terror threat
“Most Israelis need to smell the danger and feel it in order to understand that they are in danger.”
Aug. 3, 2023
Amichai Stein
Ariel Sharon
Features
The health of an Israeli prime minister
Unless the Knesset mandates transparency, prime ministers will continue to play things close to the vest because the public likes a strong leader.
Jul. 27, 2023
Amichai Stein
Biden, Netanyahu
Features
Will Biden actually meet with Netanyahu?
Should we mark our calendars, or was this merely the vaguest possible way the White House could have talked about a meeting, without actually committing to one?
Jul. 18, 2023
Amichai Stein
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, visit the Great Wall of China near Beijing, March 22, 2017. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.
Features
Netanyahu caught between Washington and Beijing
Democrats and Republicans alike agree China is enemy No. 1.
Jul. 12, 2023
Amichai Stein
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt helps to write a new Torah scroll in the Western Wall tunnels in Jerusalem, May 21, 2014. Photo by Flash90.
Features
Exiled former chief rabbi of Moscow talks about the state of Russian Jewry
I went to sleep in Moscow and woke up in Tehran, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt says.
Jul. 3, 2023
Amichai Stein
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen arrives for a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Jan. 15, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Features
‘There is no value in agreements with Iran’
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen sits down with JNS to discuss aid to Ukraine, the Iranian threat, Israel-Saudi normalization and more.
Jun. 26, 2023
Amichai Stein
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