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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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


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.

Rahm Emanuel to 'Post': ‘I told Mamdani river to the sea means destroying the Jewish people’

US AFFAIRS: In an interview with the Post, the 2028 prospective US presidential hopeful says he won’t take AIPAC money, backs a Palestinian state, and stands by sanctions on the Jewish state.

FORMER WHITE HOUSE chief of staff Rahm Emanuel speaks during a conference at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday. What was billed as an honest conversation about the US-Israel relationship ended up closer to an indictment of Israel.

Editor's Notes: Countries didn't ban athletes from flying to Israel, they let the paperwork do it

A movement that began because Jews were shut out of a gym in Constantinople built games so Jews could always get in. This year, Jews who wanted in were kept out by paperwork of friendly governments.

Israeli participants at the 2026 Maccabiah games, Jerusalem, July 1, 2026.

Historic Jewish charity rejects claims it funded Israeli anti-government protests

Geoffrey Stern, president of PEF Israel Endowment Funds, gives his first interview as a House committee investigates whether American donor dollars helped pay for Israel's anti-government protests.

Geoffrey Stern

Marco Rubio just got Lebanon to do something it hadn't done since 1983 - comment

Rubio, one of the most genuinely pro-Israel figures around US President Donald Trump, pushed a grinding, thankless process across the line when most of us assumed it would collapse.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio waves as he boards a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft after his visit to the Middle East to discuss the interim deal between the US and Iran with Arab Gulf allies, in Manama on June 25, 2026.

Editor's Notes: Gadi Eisenkot is Netanyahu’s nightmare opponent - comment

Gadi Eisenkot emerges as a leading opposition figure in Israel, topping polls alongside Likud as debates over leadership, conscription and political identity intensify ahead of upcoming elections.

GADI EISENKOT, head of the Yashar party, speaks at the Muni Expo 2026 conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

President Trump, we are trying to understand what you want from us - comment

We haven't forgotten what you did for us. We won't, and if we did, history would remind us. You brought our hostages home when most of us had quietly given up believing it could happen. 

US President Donald Trump pictured at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, June 19, 2026; illustrative.