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.

In this handout photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) transits the East Sea on March 8, 2016 during Exercise Ssang Yong 2016.

US Hormuz, Kharg island invasion - would it take weeks or months? - analysis

A protester with a poster featuring a picture of late Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on his head joins a demonstration with Houthi supporters in solidarity with Iran and Lebanon, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Sanaa, Yemen March 6, 2026.

Iran pushing Houthis to attack shipping routes as home front restrictions remain unchanged

An Israel Air Force fighter jet seen in central Israel amid the ongoing war between Israel-US and Iran, March 18, 2026.

All critical, essential targets within Iran to be destroyed before Passover, IDF announces


Israel halts defense sales to France, citing 'hostile attitude,' sources tell 'Post'

Sources told The Jerusalem Post that the decision was a result of France taking a hostile attitude toward Israel over the last two years.

A Dassault Mirage 2000 aircraft stands parked on the tarmac on the day of France's President Emmanuel Macron's visit, at the French Air and Space Force (Armee de l'air et de l'espace) Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase, France March 18, 2025.

Defense sources: Ending IDF war on Iran waits for Trump decision on Hormuz, nuke issue

Defense sources were not convinced that Iran would accept a deal to end the war in the coming week, and if they don't, Trump would decide how to address the crisis in the Strait.

US President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media onboard Air Force One on March 29, 2026 while en route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland from West Palm Beach Florida.

Both Hezbollah and Iran weighed preemptive strikes on Israel, defense sources say

Defense sources noted that the IDF and American attacks on Iran threw off Hezbollah's calculations, disrupting their plan for a preemptive strike.

A woman holds a sign depicting Iran's late supreme leader Ali Khamenei during a rally organised by Lebanese political parties supporting the Hezbollah movement outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut on March 26, 2026.

Israel to keep effective control of southern Lebanon, attacks on Hezbollah to continue post-war

Defense sources said the IDF will use various sensors, surveillance, aerial power, artillery, and tanks mixed in with ground troops in various parts of southern Lebanon to keep Hezbollah out.

Smoke is released after an Israeli army self-propelled Howitzer artillery gun fires rounds from the upper Galilee in northern Israel near the border with southern Lebanon on March 27, 2026.

IDF suspending Netzah Yehuda reservists, not just company involved, following CNN team debacle

The IDF says it opposes the battalion's full disbandment, which is considered one of the flagship projects for integrating haredim into the military.

 A soldier from the primarily Orthodox and haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Netzah Yehuda Battalion during a swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall, Jerusalem, June 11, 2025.

Israel strikes Iranian nuclear development facilities, Tehran vows retaliation

The IDF said Friday's strikes also targeted an Iranian Defense Ministry site used for the development and production of advanced explosive devices.

A general view of a heavy water plant in Arak, 320 kms south of Tehran, 26 August 2006.

Israeli naval intelligence reduces Iranian threat to Strait of Hormuz

Israeli naval intelligence has directed massive and precise fire on specific targets as part of a variety of general goals in Operation Roaring Lion.

Israel Navy soldiers; illustrative.

Chief of Staff Zamir warns IDF will collapse due to lack of manpower, raises 'ten red flags'

Israel would still need more soldiers in peacetime, while there is still no law set in place to significantly increase haredi conscription into the army.

IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir attends the funeral of Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, who's body had been held captive by Hamas in Gaza since 2014 and released a few days ago, at the Kfar Saba military cemetery.

IDF Sgt. Aviad Elchanan Volansky killed in southern Lebanon by Hezbollah anti-tank missile

Earlier on Thursday, an anti-tank missile was fired towards a group of Golani Brigade soldiers operating near the Litani River in southern Lebanon, injuring four and killing one.

 Sgt. Aviad Elchanan Wolansky, 21

'Toppling a regime is an art, not a science,' security sources say on Iran - exclusive

Security sources reveal how David Barnea's 2021 AI revolution at the Mossad could eventually 'open the gates' - helping Iranian people take to the streets.

Fires are lit as protesters rally on January 8, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.