Zvika Klein

Zvika Klein is the Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post and the paper's former Jewish World analyst. He's considered one of the world's top journalists specializing in Jewish Diaspora affairs. Klein was formerly a correspondent for Israel's Makor Rishon and Maariv newspapers.

In 2015, Klein's article, titled "10 hours of fear and loathing in Paris" became viral, and his video, showing a 10-hour walk in Paris wearing a Kippah, received millions of views. 

Born in Chicago, Klein made aliyah to Israel as a child. He served as advisor to Israel's president's office on Israel-Jewish diaspora relations and received 3 journalism awards: “B’nai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportaģe” in 2013 and 2019, and JDC 2014 Smolar Journalism Award.


Past and present meet in antisemitism. Zvika Klein and Noa Tishby in Paris, two cases with ten years of difference, but the same endings

How Europe turned Jewish visibility into a thought crime - comment

 A Palestinian demonstrator holds a sign thanking South Africa for its support during a protest in Amman, Jordan.

Hypocrisy? South Africa shuts its door on Palestinians it claims to defend - comment

A mass rally of Berliners took place in the Sportpalast, where Nazi Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and Gauleiter of Berlin, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, with ruthless frankness, described the danger facing Europe, 1943.

Europe once expelled Jewish musicians, now it hunts the only Jewish state - comment


Editor's Notes: What the next Mossad chief tells us about Israel’s new elite - comment

Roman Gofman’s appointment as Mossad director highlights a deeper change in Israel’s power elite and the religious ideas guiding it.

Roman Gofman, military secretary to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, waits before a joint press conference of US President Donald Trump and Netanyahu in the State Dining Room at the White House, in Washington, DC, US, September 29, 2025

US evangelical leader calls Tucker Carlson’s anti-Israel line ‘worse than Nazi Party platform’

Dr. Mike Evans, founder of the Friends of Zion (FOZ) Heritage Center and Museum, said that a “very serious” anti-Israel current has emerged inside parts of the American Right.

TUCKER CARLSON speaks at a memorial service for slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk in Glendale, Arizona, in September.

If the GOP has a future, it looks a lot like Marco Rubio - comment

Rubio's November: A Florida conservative in a dark suit quietly steers the Gaza stabilization plan through the UN, showing responsible power and avoiding isolationist 'performance politics.'

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives to board his plane at Homestead Air Reserve Base in Homestead, Florida, en route to Mexico City, on September 2, 2025. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio headed Tuesday on his first trip in office to Mexico, which has so far succeeded in navigating treacherou

How one Canadian donor is turning the Negev into Israel’s AI capital

“We are building a laboratory for the future, a world-class center of excellence that will shape the next generation of Israeli technology leaders,” said BGU president.

Canadian tech investor and philanthropist David Stein.

Ofir Sofer is the first religious Zionist leader to say the king is naked - comment

Sofer, the first religious Zionist leader to publicly draw a red line on the draft bill, is making a choice to protect the "future of the IDF" over his own ministerial career.

Minister of Immigration and Absorption Ofir Sofer holds a press conference at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, December 1, 2025.

Editor's Notes: Zamir faces painful reckoning as the IDF confronts failures, fragile leadership

A rare look inside the emotional and moral struggle facing IDF leaders after October 7 and the cost of true accountability.

IDF CHIEF OF STAFF Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir prays at the Western Wall during the ceremony officially swearing him in as the military’s highest-ranking officer.

New haredi draft bill grants 'amnesty' for haredim called-up since 2023 - explainer

The new haredi draft bill softens personal sanctions, allowing draft evaders to regularize their status around age 26. This flexibility draws sharp criticism from the opposition.

Haredi soldier

Zohran Mamdani called for an 'intifada,' why should Jews believe he'll protect them? - comment

The least a New York City mayor should be able to do: A mayor who says they “care very deeply about Jewish safety” should have a simple minimum standard.

Zohran Mamdani is New York City's mayor elect.

The rise of the hostage influencer and the price of public trauma - comment

Editor's Notes: The story of Israel’s new celebrities is, in the end, the story of a society that refuses to look away from its trauma, yet also cannot bear to stare at it directly for too long.

Taking control of the narrative is, for many survivors a form of therapy and a form of revenge. Hamas tried to erase them. Standing on a stage and saying “this is what they did to me and this is why we must bring the others home” is the opposite of erasure. 

Editor's Notes: The year Jews stopped believing in a safe West - comment

Diaspora communities in the West rethink their safety in the wake of rising antisemitism and political shifts.

ARMED POLICE officers stand outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester following the attack there on Yom Kippur.