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.


Guy Illouz, Yossi Sharabi, Bipin Joshi, and Daniel Peretz.

Hamas releases names of only four deceased hostages returned on Monday

Matan Angrest at Re'im, October 13, 2025.

All living hostages safely within Israel, only 4 of 28 deceased hostages to be returned Monday

People celebrate ahead of hostage releases in Tel Aviv, October 13, 2025

IDF expects hostages at 9 a.m. from Gaza City, Khan Yunis, central Gaza


PM Netanyahu appoints Brig.-Gen. Askal to lead National AI Directorate

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed Brig.-Gen. (res.) Erez Askal to lead Israel’s first National AI Directorate, aiming to make Israel a global AI power amid concerns of overlap with cyber au

 IDF Unit 9900 Commander Brig.-Gen. Erez Askal at the Ramon GeoInt360 conference.

IDF Chief Zamir: We will ensure Gaza will not constitute a threat to Israel

IDF chief: “The military pressure we have exerted over the past two years, together with the complementary political move, constitutes a victory over Hamas.”

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir addresses the nation hours ahead of the release of the Gaza hostages. October 12, 2025.

GHF pauses humanitarian operations, pledges to return

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has paused its food distribution operations, pledging to resume them, but has not specified when.

Displaced Palestinians carry food parcels and supplies from a GHF aid distribution point at the “Netzarim corridor” in the central Gaza, August 8, 2025.

If war is over, what happens with ICC, ICJ cases against Israel? - analysis

With a war-ending deal on the table, the future of the ICC and ICJ proceedings against Netanyahu and Gallant is uncertain.

THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court building in The Hague: The ICC has no viable plan to bring to justice the Hamas leaders who conceived the mega-atrocity in Israel, or the terrorist organization’s supporters who slaughtered 1,200 civilians and seized 251 people as hostages on October 7, 2023

Israel's military pressure brought Gaza hostages home, IDF chief Eyal Zamir tells soldiers

The IDF chief warned that all soldiers must stay on their guard as "the enemy is still here - he has not disappeared," and there could still be unexpected military confrontations.

IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir speaks to Israeli soldiers near the Gaza border, October 9, 2025

What concessions did Israel, Hamas make to reach hostage-ceasefire deal in Gaza? - analysis

A shift in sequencing and rare dual concessions may have finally ended the Gaza war, in a way neither side had previously backed.

A woman in the colors of the US flag holds up a placard thanking US President Donald Trump in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square on October 9, 2025

IDF cyber defense training guru tells 'Post' about Iran, air defense, ChatGPT, and the future

At the IDF’s cyber base in Beersheba, Lt.-Col. Bar Inbar trains Israel’s next generation of cyber defenders, combining hi-tech innovation with military discipline to safeguard the nation’s security.

Soldiers at the IDF's future cyber base in Beersheba, October 2025.

WATCH: IDF reveals long-range rockets pointed toward Israel within Gaza City

In addition, Israeli forces located a cache of weapons containing explosives, radios, cartridges, and numerous weapons.

IDF operates in Gaza City, October 6, 2025.

IDF withdrawal, future raids in Gaza key to success of deal with Hamas - analysis

Israel needs to be asking itself the long-term question: What danger will Hamas still present to Israel over a more extended period of time?

A Palestinian Hamas militant helps fix the headband of another as they stand guard as people gather on the day of the handover of hostages, including four held in Gaza since the deadly October 7 2023 attack, to members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as part of a ceasefire and

Gaza City evacuation: Almost a million Palestinians leave Gaza, some 200,000 remain, IDF says

Around 900,000 Palestinians have evacuated Gaza City since mid-August, with approximately 100,000 reportedly evacuating over the past week, the Israeli military said.

Palestinians evacuating northern Gaza following IDF orders, October 3, 2025