Zvika Klein

Zvika Klein is the Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post , an Israeli-American journalist, columnist, speaker, and moderator covering Israel, the Jewish world, Diaspora affairs, antisemitism, and Israel-Diaspora relations. He previously served as the paper's Jewish World analyst and is recognized as one of the leading journalists covering Jewish communities worldwide. For speaking, media appearances, and selected work, visit Zvika Klein's official website: www.zvikaklein.com. Zvika Klein is the Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post , an Israeli-American journalist, columnist, speaker, and moderator covering Israel, the Jewish world, Diaspora affairs, antisemitism, and Israel-Diaspora relations. He previously served as the paper's Jewish World analyst and is recognized as one of the leading journalists covering Jewish communities worldwide. For speaking, media appearances, and selected work, visit Zvika Klein's official website : www.zvikaklein.com. Klein has met with and interviewed heads of state, senior government officials, diplomats, top business leaders, philanthropists, and prominent figures from the Jewish world. He regularly speaks and provides analysis on international and Hebrew-language media outlets, including CNN, Fox News, BBC, NewsNation, Sky News, and others. Klein has reported from Israel, Europe, North America, and Jewish communities around the world, focusing on Jewish identity, antisemitism, Israeli society, and the evolving relationship between Israel and the Diaspora. He was formerly a correspondent for Israel's Makor Rishon and Maariv newspapers. In 2015, Klein's article, titled "10 hours of fear and loathing in Paris," went viral. The accompanying video, which showed him walking for 10 hours in Paris while wearing a kippah, received millions of views and became one of the most widely viewed journalistic projects on European antisemitism at the time. Born in Chicago, Klein made aliyah to Israel as a child. He served as an adviser to Israel's President's Office on Israel-Diaspora relations. He has received three journalism awards: the B'nai B'rith World Center Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage in 2013 and 2019, and the JDC 2014 Smolar Journalism Award.

Photo illustration | Potential center-right political players Dedi Simchi, Ayelet Shaked, Yoaz Hendel, Gilad Erdan, Ofer Winter, Benny Gantz and Yuli Edelstein.

Editor's Notes: The argument splitting religious-Zionist households before Israel’s election

Arkansas lawmaker Rep. Aaron Pilkington.

The Iron Dome is partly made in Arkansas, this lawmaker went to see it work

Belgian military personnel armed with assault rifles stand guard outside a synagogue in central Antwerp as part of Belgium’s reinforced security measures established at Jewish schools and synagogues, on March 23.Premium

Zionism promised a cure for antisemitism, then Israel became its case manager – comment


Two neighbors, four seats, and the one that decides Israel's next government - analysis

Chili Tropper and Yoaz Hendel, neighbors in a Judean Hills moshav, may hold the four seats that determine who becomes Israel’s next prime minister.

Yoaz Hendel, head of the Reservists' Party and a former minister, holds a press conference outside Kibbutz Retamim in the central Negev Desert, southern Israel, in February, 2026.

Editor's Notes: Germany’s ‘good Jews’ thought they were safe, New York should pay attention

Nobody has to work anything out anymore. The question is whether a single one of Mamdani's Jewish voters will say they were wrong.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an unknown location, in this still image taken from handout video released July 21, 2026.

Israeli officials need to stop demonizing JD Vance, in doing so they prove him right - comment

We heard a warning about our isolation. He was telling us the era of automatic sympathy retires with his boss. Burn every Vance effigy you can build; the shift stays.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and US Vice President JD Vance meet at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem last month. US politics has transformed Israel into a volatile symbol of domestic partisan identity, the writer asserts.

New York hosted the world's war criminals for 80 years, but Mamdani only noticed the Jew - comment

If his principle is that New York City should enforce international criminal law against visiting heads of state, he owes the public the rest of his list. Right now, it has one name on it.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a primary-night watch party for NYC Congressional candidate Claire Valdez at 99 Scott Studio on June 23, 2026 in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City.

Who is Gary Torgow: The man who got Washington and Jerusalem to fund Jewish day schools - interview

He rarely gives interviews. When he does, it's because he wants to move something for the Jewish people, not because he wants to be seen.

Gary Torgow stood with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other ministers on June 28, 2026

Editor's Notes: What this newspaper will ask of every party until Election Day

A full Knesset term, the first in nearly four decades, is a real institutional achievement in a region where governments rarely die of old age. But the Temple was magnificent on its last morning too.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi are seen in the Knesset plenum during a vote on the minister's communications reform, in Jerusalem, July 16, 2026

Israeli politics is driving out its mensches, and the country will pay the price - comment

On Wednesday, Sofer announced he will not run for the next Knesset.

Minister of Aliyah and Integration Ofir Sofer speaks to individuals at an aliyah event.

Lindsey Graham is gone, Israel may never find another friend like him - comment

Lindsey Graham’s death leaves Israel without one of its fiercest advocates and raises urgent questions about the future of US support.

US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) walks through the Dirksen Senate Office Building before Judiciary Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, US, April 27, 2022.

One detail in the IDF statement changes the whole Ro Khanna story - comment

The army's account has one armed man. His tweet has settlers, plural, brandishing rifles. Somebody's description is wrong, and it can be checked.

US Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) is interviewed by Reuters during a visit to Turmus Ayya, near Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, July 9, 2026.

Editor's Notes: Israel-US alliance after the aid is gone must become a partnership, not an MoU

Israel should stop talking like a needy recipient. America should stop pretending this is philanthropy. Both governments have decided the aid era is over, and that something new must come next.

US President Barack Obama (C-R), escorted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C-L), view battery of Iron Dome, short-range missile defence system during a welcome ceremony at Ben Gurion International Airport on March 20, 2013 near Tel Aviv.