Yaakov Katz is Edi­tor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post. He pre­vi­ous­ly served, for close to a decade, as the paper’s mil­i­tary reporter and defense ana­lyst, and is the co-author of the books: The Weapon Wiz­ards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Mil­i­tary Super­pow­er and Israel vs. Iran: The Shad­ow War. Pri­or to tak­ing up the role of Edi­tor-in-Chief, Katz served for two years as a senior pol­i­cy advis­er to Israel’s Min­is­ter of Econ­o­my and Min­is­ter of Dias­po­ra Affairs. In 2013, Katz was one of 12 inter­na­tion­al fel­lows to spend a year at the Nie­man Foun­da­tion for Jour­nal­ism at Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty. Orig­i­nal­ly from Chica­go, Katz also has a law degree from Bar Ilan Uni­ver­si­ty. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and four children.