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 is the author of the award winning book Target Tehran, about the Mossad's secret war against Iran's nuclear program and its role in the Abraham Accords, published in hardcover by Simon & Schuster in September 2023, and translated and published in Hebrew by Yediot Books in April 2024, with an English paperback version due in September 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.

Yonah is the editor and translator of the intelligence and terrorism thriller A Raid on the Red Sea published by Potomac/Nebraska in March 2021. His first book on aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was published by Gefen in August 2019.

Yonah has been interviewed by CNN, BBC, Skynews, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, Reuters, 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 DC, 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.


Children look out of a building as Palestinian Hamas militants stand guard on the day of the handover of hostages in the Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025

Will ISF Gaza force be allowed to take action against Hamas or not? - analysis

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar at the Opening of a Meeting in New Delhi, India with External Affairs Minister Dr. Jaishankar on Nnovember 4th, 2025.

Israel, India sign major defense deal in shadow of weapons boycotts

Attorney Itai Ophir.

Katz appoints former Defense Ministry legal advisor Itai Ophir as IDF's top attorney


Palestinian detainee allegedly abused by five IDF soldiers at Sde Teiman returned to Gaza

The alleged abuse of the terrorist appears in the leaked Sde Teiman video central in the scandal around military advocate-general Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi's resignation.

Officers from Force 100, responsible for guarding terrorists at Sde Teiman, November 2, 2025.

Netanyahu stresses no safe passage for Hamas terrorists without disarming, IDF will not block deal

Israel was reportedly considering allowing some 200 Hamas terrorists currently within the Israeli side of the Yellow Line in Gaza to return to Rafah if they agree to lay down their weapons.

A Hamas terrorist pictured in the Gaza Strip, November 2, 2025; illustrative.

Court extends detention of ex-IDF top attorney to Wednesday, judge concerned she may obstruct probe

Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court Judge Shelley Kurtin expressed concern that she may obstruct the probe into the alleged leak of a video related to the Sde Teiman Palestinian prisoner abuse case.

 The Supreme Court in Jerusalem convenes for a petition regarding the Sde Teiman military base, January 1, 2025

IDF Hostages Recovery Chief Nitzan Alon to return to civilian life

Netanyahu's personal hostage coordinator, Brig. Gen. (res.) Gal Hirsch, will take Alon's place.

Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon attends a replacing ceremony held at the IDF Central Command headquarters in Jerusalem on July 8, 2024.

IDF chief Eyal Zamir, Defense Minister Katz meet to discuss next IDF Military Advocate General

At the time of publication, there was no clear lead candidate to replace Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi as the new chief lawyer of the IDF.

 Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir. March 25, 2025.

Who is Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, IDF's chief attorney embroiled in Sde Teiman video leak? - explainer

Tomer-Yerhsualmi's long career in the IDF's legal division ended abruptly after she resigned in connection to leaks related to the Sde Teiman affair.

IDF Military Advocate-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, October 1, 2024

Ex IDF chief lawyer Tomer-Yerushalmi found alive near Tel Aviv beach after suicide concerns

The incident may lead to unusual calculations, including the need to conduct Tomer-Yerushalmi's interrogation for the Sde Teiman leak while she is safely in custody.

IDF Military Advocate-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, October 1, 2024

Sde Teiman leak: Does Israel's government fear the extreme Right more than ICC's legal fallout?

How did this leak get caught out of so many against the prime minister that were not caught?

 Demonstrates protest against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers suspected of assaulting a Hamas terrorist, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024.

IDF's top attorney resigns over leak of Sde Teiman abuse video, after Katz announces firing

Defense Minister Israel Katz dismissed IDF Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi over her link to a probe into a leaked Sde Teiman video, prompting her resignation.

 IDF MILITARY Advocate-General Maj.-Gen. Yifat Tomer Yerushalmi is the Israeli military’s chief lawyer and has the task of defending Israelis from accusations of war crimes.

Gaza's fragile ceasefire holding: What Israel did not strike this week against Hamas – analysis

Despite the increased lethality in the IDF's strikes against Hamas, Israel still shows commitment to the ceasefire and the urge to avoid a large-scale invasion of Gaza.

Smoke rises as a building hit by an Israeli air strike collapses, in Gaza City, September 5, 2025