Yaakov Katz is an American-born Israeli author and journalist. He has written three acclaimed books: Shadow Strike: Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power, The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower, and Israel vs. Iran: The Shadow War. Reshet Media recently adapted Shadow Strike into a docudrama, and his books have been published in several languages including English, Hebrew, Czech, Polish, Japanese, and Mandarin. Between 2016 and 2023, Yaakov was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, where he continues to write a popular weekly column. Before that, he served for close to a decade as the paper's military reporter and defense analyst, and was a lecturer at Harvard University, where he taught an advanced course in journalism. Prior to taking up the role of editor-in-chief, Yaakov served for two years as a senior policy adviser to Naftali Bennett during his tenure as Israel's Minister of Economy and Minister of Diaspora Affairs. In 2013, Yaakov was one of 12 international fellows to spend a year at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Originally from Chicago, Yaakov has a law degree from Bar Ilan University.