Yonah Jeremy Bob

Yonah Jeremy Bob is The Jerusalem Post 's senior military correspondent and intelligence analyst and was previously literary editor for 4.5 years. He covers the Israeli military, the Mossad, the Shin Bet, defense technologies, Iran's weapons of mass destruction, cyberwarfare, and war crimes allegations. Yonah is also well-connected to all of the top Israeli ministries from his former posts in the IDF, the Foreign Ministry, and the Justice Ministry. Yonah's award winning book Target Tehran has sold over 40,000 copies worldwide. This true story of the Mossad's secret war against Iran's nuclear program and its role in the Abraham Accords was published in hardcover by Simon & Schuster in September 2023, and translated and published as a best seller in Hebrew by Yediot Books in April 2024. The Wall Street Journal listed the book in its Top 5 for Politics for 2023 and it won the Jewish Book Council/Natan Award for 2024. His newest book - In the War Room: The Inside Story of Israel's Fight Against Hamas and the Iranian Axis - is due to be published in hardcover in English on September 8 and will also be translated and published in Hebrew by Yediot Books. Yonah is the editor and translator of the intelligence and terrorism thriller A Raid on the Red Sea published in March 2021. His first book on aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was published in August 2019. Yonah has been interviewed by CNN, Fox News, BBC, NBC, ABC, the London Times , Al Jazeera, and a range of other television and radio programs in English and has also been interviewed by a wide variety of print and radio Hebrew media. Yonah also delivers foreign affairs lectures and Zoom lectures throughout the US, Canada, Australia and Israel, including at the International Spy Museum in Washington, to World Affairs Councils, and to a wide variety of Jewish groups. Hailing from Baltimore in the US, Yonah graduated with honors from Columbia University and Boston University Law School. He is married with three children.

The IDF ordered a deeper prove into the killing of six-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab, pictured here.

Israel publishes internal war crimes probe, in first since October 7 Massacre

Palestinians use their phones as Israeli settlers and military personnel stand outside a Palestinian home in Qusra, in the West Bank, August 15, 2026, in this screen grab obtained from a video.

B'Tselem claims 47 Palestinian families at risk of expulsion, IDF says homes built illegally

Israeli forces conduct a military operation in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the West Bank, August 12, 2026.

Katz's plan to shift West Bank settler cases to police not coordinated with IDF, may be blocked


After 44 years: IDF finds, returns remains of Yehuda Katz, who went missing in First Lebanon War

Katz was declared missing following the Battle of Sultan Yacoub in Lebanon, alongside two other soldiers, Zachary Baumel and Zvi Feldman. 

Yehuda Katz.

Israeli officials stunned by Iran’s rapid military recovery after 2026 war - exclusive

IDF, Mossad officials shocked for the second time in two years by the speed of Iranian post-war recovery • IDF seeing a stunningly speedy turnaround in ballistic missile threat

(L-R) Defense Minister Israel Katz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and IDF chief Eyal Zmair attend an IDF officers’ course graduation ceremony in southern Israel, June 25, 2026

IDF strikes Hamas terror cell, resuming preemptive strikes despite Trump's Gaza deal

After curbing its operations in line with US instructions since the July deal took effect, the IDF is confident on removing ongoing threats in Gaza, military sources said.

A Palestinian man walks past the rubble of buildings destroyed by the IDF in Khan Yunis, the southern Gaza Strip, August 11, 2026

IDF reverses evacuation of Palestinians amid settler chaos in West Bank's Kusra

Settler extremists accused of cutting electricity, water to Palestinian homes • Locals describe feeling helpless as Ben-Gvir says some settlers "must be stopped"

Footage showing extremist settlers throwing rocks in the West Bank village of Kusra, August 12, 2026.

Israel's failure to restrain violent Jewish extremists in West Bank reaches new low - analysis

How much longer before the IDF entirely loses the power to enforce order on violent Jewish extremists?

The damage following an attack by Israeli settlers in the village of Tell, near the West Bank city of Nablus, July 25, 2026.

IDF carries out first preemptive Hamas strike since late July Gaza deal

Shortly after that deal, the US essentially instructed Israel to stop attacking Gaza, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu complied.

IDF soldiers map out a terrorist's home in preparation for its demolition, July 25, 2026.

What comes after the war? Israel's defense chiefs reveal where the IDF plans to remain - exclusive

Regarding the broader consensus points, from Right to Left, top Israeli defense officials believe the country must maintain some kind of security zone in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria for years to come.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu in a security meeting with the Minister of Defense, the IDF Chief of Staff and the Director of the Mossad at the Kirya in Tel Aviv, Sunday, 1 March 2026.

Can new Dardik model be used to reduce administrative detention for some Palestinians? - analysis

Getting the volume of Palestinian administrative detainees under control is a time bomb for global support that Jerusalem likely needs to defuse so that Israel can save its global standing.

Israel's Ofer Prison; Illustrative.

'No matter what password you use, I will break it in a fraction of a second'

Prof. Maj.-Gen. (res.) Isaac Ben-Israel, one of the architects of Israel's cyber apparatus, tells the Jerusalem Post that quantum computing will wipe out today's encryption.

ON THE front line of the cyber war, Israel has become one of the world’s most targeted countries for cyberattacks, with state-backed hackers increasingly using AI to probe government networks, companies, and critical infrastructure.

While Karim Khan's dismissal rocks ICC, Israel's international legal battle remains - analysis

Karim Khan's dismissal has damaged the ICC, but Israel still faces arrest warrants and war crimes scrutiny unless it changes its legal strategy.

International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan talks during an interview with Reuters in The Hague, Netherlands, January 16, 2025.