Yonah Jeremy Bob is an author and Israeli-based journalist who has worked at The Jerusalem Post since 2012 and currently serves as senior military correspondent, intelligence analyst and Literary Editor.[1] He frequently lectures in Israel and the United States on security, spy wars, diplomacy and politics.[2][3] His latest book, Target Tehran was released in September 2023 and deals with Israel's response to the Iranian nuclear program.[4] The book was named one of the Top Five Books in Politics for 2023 by the Wall Street journal, and won the Jewish Book Council Natan Award for 2023.[5][6] A review in the Wall Street Journal by John Bolton said the book was "replete with anti-Iran cyber-warfare and sabotage successes."[7]
Bob was the first to interview former Mossad director Yossi Cohen in English in October 2021.[11][12] He moderated a panel at Reichman University in which former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and other top defense officials participated.[13] He moderated a panel at Reichman University in which two former Mossad chiefs, Shabtai Shavit and Efrayim Halevy, as well as former IDF intelligence chief Aharon Zeevi Farkash participated.[14]
In 2018, he was the first to report that the Israeli Attorney-General would indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, several months before the first formal announcement.[15] He was subsequently interviewed in-depth about the story.
From July 2020 to January 2023, Bob broke a series of exclusives and first publications about sensational attacks on Iran's nuclear program which most attributed to the Mossad.[16][17][18][19] During the war in Israel that began in October, 2023, Yonah was embedded with Israeli forces in Gaza three times: at Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, at Yahya Sinwar's house in Khan Yunis and at Rafah, the Philadelphi Corridor and the Kerem Shalom and Rafah Crossings.[20] During this time period he also authored several op-eds in the Wall Street Journal.
Target Tehran, his book co-authored with Ilan Evyatar, was released a month before the outbreak of the 2023 war between Israel and Gaza, and reviews have noted the link between Hamas and Iran.[21][22]Target Tehran was translated to Hebrew and published by Yediot Books in April 2024.[23] The paperback edition of Target Tehran is due to be published in September 2024, with a new Afterword addressing the post October 7, 2023 world.[24]
Bob was interviewed about the war and his book to media outlets such as NBC Morning Joe, KTEP,[25] BizTalk Radio,[26] at a Hudson Institute seminar,[27] the Reichman University World Counter-Terror Summit, was scholar in residence at Jewish Center in Manhattan,[28] and was interviewed for the 2023 Detroit Jewish Book Fair.[29] He has been a guest lecturer at the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston and at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, both in October 2023.[30][31] He and Evyatar presented the book to Israeli President Isaac Herzog upon its release.[citation needed]. He has interviewed many times about the 2023-2024 Middle East War, including on BBC News[32] and FOX News,[33] and has done well over 100 TV and radio interviews over his journalistic career.
Books
Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East by Yonah Jeremy Bob and Ilan Evyatar, 2023[34]
A Raid on the Red Sea: The Israeli Capture of the Karine A by Amos Gilboa, edited and translated by Yonah Jeremy Bob.[35]
Justice in the West Bank?: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Goes to Court by Yonah Jeremy Bob, 2019[36]
