Yonah Jeremy Bob
{{Short description|Journalist}}
{{Infobox journalist
| name = Yonah Jeremy Bob
| native_name = יונה ג'רמי בוב
| native_name_lang = he
| alma_mater = Columbia University
| occupation = Journalist
| years_active = 2012–present
| employer = The Jerusalem Post
| known_for = Geopolitical journalism
}}
Yonah Jeremy Bob ({{Langx|he|יונה ג'רמי בוב}}) 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.{{Cite news |title=Yonah Jeremy Bob |url=https://www.jpost.com/author/yonah-jeremy-bob |access-date=2023-06-09 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |language=en-US}} He frequently lectures in Israel and the United States on security, spy wars, diplomacy and politics.{{Cite web |last=Headapohl |first=Jackie |date=2017-12-06 |title=The Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC hosted its annual luncheon for Detroit media |url=https://thejewishnews.com/2017/12/06/36217/ |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=The Jewish News |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Speaker Yonah Jeremy Bob - Jewish Speakers Bureau |url=https://jewishspeakersbureau.com/speakers/jeremy-bob |access-date=2023-06-18 |website=jewishspeakersbureau.com}} His latest book, Target Tehran was released in September 2023 and deals with Israel's response to the Iranian nuclear program.{{Cite web |title=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, Ilan Evyatar |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781668014561 |access-date=2023-06-18 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}} 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.{{Cite web |last=The Wall Street Journal |date=December 6, 2023 |title=The Best Books of 2023: Politics |url=https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-best-books-of-2023-politics-6777eb13?mod=arts-culture_lead_story}}{{Cite web |date=2024-03-13 |title=Announcing the Natan Notable Books Fall 2023 Winner |url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/announcing-the-natan-notable-books-fall-2023-winner#:~:text=Natan%20and%20the%20Jewish%20Book,&%20Schuster,%20September%202023). |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=Jewish Book Council |language=en}} A review in the Wall Street Journal by John Bolton said the book was "replete with anti-Iran cyber-warfare and sabotage successes."{{Cite web |last=Bolton |first=John |title='Target Tehran' Review: The Uses of Intelligence |url=https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/target-tehran-review-the-uses-of-intelligence-2c3fa5da |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=WSJ |language=en-US}}
Bob was raised in Baltimore{{Cite web |last=Sagal |first=Caryn R. |date=2021-04-13 |title=Baltimore Native Yonah Jeremy Bob Helps Shed Light on Daring Israeli-U.S. Raid |url=https://jmoreliving.com/2021/04/13/baltimore-native-yonah-jeremy-bob-helps-shed-light-on-daring-israeli-u-s-raid/ |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=JMORE |language=en-US}} and graduated cum laude from Columbia University and Boston University Law School.{{Cite web |last=Berman |first=Jesse |date=2021-04-13 |title=Translating tale of commando raid: Yonah Jeremy Bob |url=https://www.jewishtimes.com/translating-tale-of-commando-raid-yonah-jeremy-bob/ |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=Baltimore Jewish Times |language=en-US}} He previously worked for the Israeli Foreign Ministry and Israeli Military International Law Division and the Israeli Justice Ministry.{{Cite web |title=Mr. Yonah Jeremy Bob |url=https://ict.org.il/ourteam/mr-yonah-jeremy-bob/ |access-date=2023-06-18 |website=ICT |language=en-US}}
Journalism and Public Speaking Career
Bob was the first to interview former Mossad director Yossi Cohen in English in October 2021.{{Citation |title=Yonah Bob interview with recently retired Mossad chief Yossi Cohen | date=14 October 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Otw0fQ7Gf8 |access-date=2023-06-18 |language=en}}{{Cite news |title=Yossi Cohen: The Mossad spy chief who stole Iran's secret nuclear archive |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/yossi-cohen-the-mossad-spy-chief-who-stole-irans-secret-nuclear-archives-602811 |access-date=2023-06-18 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |language=en-US}} He moderated a panel at Reichman University in which former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon and other top defense officials participated.{{Cite web |title=World Summit on Counter Terrorism |url=https://ict.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/ICT21-Schedule_2022_09_10_2304.pdf}} 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.{{Cite web |last=edmunds |first=donna |date=2021-09-13 |title=The US will not be allowed to leave the Middle East, former Mossad head warns {{!}} World Israel News |url=https://worldisraelnews.com/the-us-will-not-be-allowed-to-leave-the-middle-east-former-mossad-head-warns/ |access-date=2023-06-18 |website=WIN |language=en-US}}
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.{{Cite news |title=Exclusive: Fate of Netanyahu, the government and the criminal probes |url=https://www.jpost.com/opinion/deepening-legal-jeopardy-the-cases-against-the-prime-minister-560021 |access-date=2023-06-18 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite news |title=Three-quarters of Natanz centrifuge assembly hall destroyed - nuke experts |url=https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/three-quarters-of-natanz-centrifuge-assembly-hall-destroyed-nuke-experts-634444 |access-date=2023-06-18 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |title='Mossad behind attack on Iran's Natanz nuclear facility' |language=en-US |work=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |url=https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/incident-reported-in-iranian-natanz-nuclear-facility-664792 |access-date=2023-06-18}}{{Cite news |title=Iran nuclear centrifuge facility substantially damaged in attack |url=https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/drone-attack-targets-irans-atomic-energy-organization-671834 |access-date=2023-06-18 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Israeli drone attack on Iranian weapons factory was phenomenal success |url=https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-729959 |access-date=2023-06-18 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |date=29 January 2023 |language=en-US}} 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.{{Cite news |date=2024-07-27 |title=Yonah Jeremy Bob: From passion to profession |url=https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-811896 |access-date=2024-08-19 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |language=en}} 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.{{Cite news |last=Kaufman |first=Elliot |date=2023-10-13 |title=Opinion {{!}} What Israeli Victory Would Look Like |language=en-US |work=Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-israeli-victory-would-look-like-hamas-war-b5a2ee80 |access-date=2023-11-14 |issn=0099-9660}}{{Cite web |last=Abonyi |first=Michael |date=2023-10-17 |title=Intelligence Warfare: Targeting Tehran to Stop a Nuclear Iran |url=https://www.fdd.org/events/2023/10/24/intelligence-warfare-targeting-tehran-to-stop-a-nuclear-iran/ |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=FDD |language=en}} Target Tehran was translated to Hebrew and published by Yediot Books in April 2024.{{Cite web |script-title=he:המוסד בטהרן - יונה ג'רמי בוב, אילן אביתר |url=https://www.ybook.co.il/book/8909/%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%93-%D7%91%D7%98%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%9F |access-date=2024-08-19 |website=Yedioth Books}} 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.{{Cite news |date=2024-07-27 |title=Yonah Jeremy Bob: From passion to profession |url=https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-811896 |access-date=2024-08-19 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |language=en}}
Bob was interviewed about the war and his book to media outlets such as NBC Morning Joe, KTEP,{{Cite web |title=Target Tehran: How Israel is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East |url=https://www.ktep.org/show/the-book-club/2023-10-03/target-tehran-how-israel-is-using-sabotage-cyberwarfare-assassination-and-secret-diplomacy-to-stop-a-nuclear-iran-and-create-a-new-middle-east |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=KTEP |language=en}} BizTalk Radio,{{Cite web |title=Jim Campbell Radio: Jim Campbell Radio; Creating a new Middle East on Apple Podcasts |url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jim-campbell-radio-creating-a-new-middle-east/id1652357985?i=1000630486463 |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Apple Podcasts |language=en-US}} at a Hudson Institute seminar,{{Cite web |date=2023-11-01 |title=Target Tehran {{!}} Hudson |url=https://www.hudson.org/events/target-tehran |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=www.hudson.org |language=en}} the Reichman University World Counter-Terror Summit, was scholar in residence at Jewish Center in Manhattan,{{Cite journal |title=The Jewish Center |url=https://images.shulcloud.com/634/uploads/October20-21.ShabbatBulletin5784.pdf |journal=Jewish Center Bulletin |volume=OCTOBER 20 – 21, 2023 |page=1}} and was interviewed for the 2023 Detroit Jewish Book Fair.{{Citation |title=Target Tehran - Secret Diplomacy w/authors Yonah Jeremy Bob & Ilan Evyatar | date=6 November 2023 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNpNbSOk3mE |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=en}} 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.{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijaquNRgAO4 | title=Understanding Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah & Iran | website=YouTube | date=8 November 2023 }}https://www.fdd.org/events/2023/10/24/intelligence He and Evyatar presented the book to Israeli President Isaac Herzog upon its release.{{cn|date=January 2024}}. He has interviewed many times about the 2023-2024 Middle East War, including on BBC News{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsKOFXEwbPU |title=BBC World News 2024 08 18 14 04 44 1 |date=2024-08-25 |last=yonahjeremybob |access-date=2024-08-27 |via=YouTube}} and FOX News,{{Cite web |date=2024-08-14 |title=Israeli intelligence is certain Iran will attack: Yonah Jeremy Bob {{!}} Fox Business Video |url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6360420749112 |access-date=2024-08-27 |website=Fox Business |language=en-US}} 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{{Cite book |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Target-Tehran/Yonah-Jeremy-Bob/9781668014561 |title=Target Tehran |date=2023-09-26 |isbn=978-1-6680-1456-1 |language=en |last1=Bob |first1=Yonah Jeremy |last2=Evyatar |first2=Ilan |publisher=Simon and Schuster }}
- A Raid on the Red Sea: The Israeli Capture of the Karine A by Amos Gilboa, edited and translated by Yonah Jeremy Bob.{{Cite web |date=2022-05-31 |title='A Raid on the Red Sea' Book Review: Israeli Commandos Intercept an Arms Cache Destined for Terrorists |url=https://www.historynet.com/a-raid-on-the-red-sea-book-review/ |access-date=2023-06-09 |website=HistoryNet |language=en-US}}
- Justice in the West Bank?: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Goes to Court by Yonah Jeremy Bob, 2019{{Cite web |title=Book Review: Justice in the West Bank? by Yonah Jeremy Bob |work=Man of la Book | A Bookish Blog |date=18 November 2019 |url=https://manoflabook.com/wp/book-review-justice-in-the-west-bank-by-yonah-jeremy-bob/}}
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External links
- [https://yonahbobforeignaffairs.com/ Personal website]
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