Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East

Speaker:

Yonah Jeremy Bob

Senior Military Correspondent and Intelligence Analyst, The Jerusalem Post

Thursday, November 7, 2024  |  12:15 - 1:30 PM  |  SRH 3.122, LBJ School of Public Affairs

Yonah Jeremy Bob Tryptich

On Thursday, November 7, 2024, the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project hosted author Yonah Jeremy Bob for a book talk on Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East.

BIOGRAPHY

Yonah Jeremy Bob is The Jerusalem Post‘s senior military correspondent and intelligence analyst and was previously Literary Editor for over four years. He covers the Israeli military, the Mossad, the Shin Bet, defense technologies, Iran’s weapons of mass destruction, cyberwarfare, and war crimes allegations. Bob is also well-connected to all of the top Israeli ministries from his former posts in the IDF, the Foreign Ministry, and the Justice Ministry.

Bob is the author of the award winning book Target Tehran, about the Mossad’s secret war against Iran’s nuclear program and its role in the Abraham Accords, published by Simon & Schuster in September 2023, and translated and published in Hebrew by Yediot Books in April 2024, with an English paperback version due in September 2024. The Wall Street Journal listed the book in its Top 5 for Politics in 2023 and it won the Jewish Book Council/Natan Award for 2024.

Bob is the editor and translator of the intelligence and terrorism thriller A Raid on the Red Sea published by Potomac/Nebraska in March 2021. His first book on aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was published by Gefen in August 2019. Bob has been interviewed by CNN, BBC, Skynews, Al Jazeera, Voice of America, Reuters, and a range of other television and radio programs in English and has also been interviewed by a wide variety of print and radio Hebrew media.

Hailing from Baltimore, MD, Bob graduated with honors from Columbia University and Boston University Law School. He is married with three children.