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.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks with 'Jerusalem Post' Editor in Chief Zvika Klein, August 12, 2026.

The secret Smotrich kept from his wife: Israel was going to war with Iran - interview

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich

WATCH: 'I know how to act responsibly': Smotrich outlines election strategy, plan to draft haredim

The Douglas family, including Nefesh B'Nefesh's 100,000th olah, celebrate their immigration to Israel, August 2026.

Editor's Notes: Why won't Israel give its 100,000 olim a real political voice? -comment


Saudi Arabia's new alliance did nothing when a Houthi drone hit Jizan - analysis

Saudi Arabia’s new defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan promises collective deterrence, but its first test showed the limits of what that commitment may actually mean.

Billboards display the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement in Karachi, Pakistan, August 9, 2026.

The billionaire who wants to build the Middle East a parliament on Israeli soil - interview

Joseph (Joe) J. Sitt calls it the Abraham Organization, and he is deliberate about dropping the word "Accord," referring to it as "the next evolution."

Joseph (Joe) J. Sitt, the chairman and CEO of the New York real estate firm Thor Equities.

Editor's Notes: With elections near, every Israeli must watch this pre-Oct. 7 documentary

We know what talking about each other instead of talking to each other costs in a way no generation of Israelis has ever known. We cannot afford to learn it twice.

Dismantles anti-Israel propaganda: Soul of a Nation

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

Israel elects 120 members of Knesset by proportional representation; nobody has ever won a majority, 61 is the only number that counts.

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

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

Rep. Aaron Pilkington came with a delegation of state legislators. He went home arguing that the US-Israel relationship already runs through his own district.

Arkansas lawmaker Rep. Aaron Pilkington.

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

Protecting Jews worldwide requires more than good intentions – it demands a clearer Israeli strategy

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.
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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.