Yaakov Katz ✓

@yaakovkatz · Jerusalem, Israel · joined 14 Sep 2011

Writer. MEAD co-founder. @jewishpolicy, @Jerusalem_Post. Books: 'While Israel Slept’, Shadow Strike', 'Weapon Wizards', 'Israel vs. Iran'. @NiemanFdn Fellow.

35 330Followers

935Following

11 227Posts total

66KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views12 474this account1 456median for 10K–100K

Reach, %35.31%this account4.50%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.72%this account1.88%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	12 474	1 456	8.57×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	35.31%	4.50%	7.85×
Engagement rate	0.72%	1.88%	0.38×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

12.5K16 Jul

19.5K26 Aug

4.1K29 Aug

28.7K1 Sep

1.3K2 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.44%16 Jul

0.80%26 Aug

0.49%29 Aug

0.72%1 Sep

1.19%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.88%.

What the audience does

Likes59.1%319 in total

Reposts14.8%80 in total

Replies7.0%38 in total

Quotes2.8%15 in total

Bookmarks16.3%88 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

I strongly recommend listening to this @JewishPolicy podcast I recorded with my good friend @smekhennet about how jihadist extremism has evolved since 9/11, what the West learned – and failed to learn – from the War on Terror, and whether the world is safer today. 1.3K views · 11 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 Another example of Netanyahu doing what he does best: avoiding responsibility. His latest claim is that if he had been woken up at 4 or 5 a.m. on October 7, he would have made decisions that could have prevented the Hamas invasion. Why wasn’t he woken? Because, he suggests, the 28.7K views · 133 likes · 44 reposts · 19 replies 01 Sep 2026 The refusal by @naftalibennett and @AvigdorLiberman to commit to recommending the leader of the largest party in their bloc to form the next government suggests they may have another plan in mind. Why are they refusing to make that commitment - and what does it tell us about the 4.1K views · 15 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 29 Aug 2026 My good friend Peter is not one for hyperbole. He spent some 25 years in the IDF, knows the West Bank like the palm of his hand, and warns here that what is happening there goes far beyond politics. This is a new and different kind of extremism - one that endangers Israel itself. 19.5K views · 113 likes · 27 reposts · 14 replies 26 Aug 2026 Excited to share that @StMartinsPress will publish my next book, ״The Fortress and the Home: Israel's Next 80 Years״, timed for Israel's 80th anniversary. After four books and years writing about Israel's wars, intelligence, and security, this book asks a different question: htt 12.5K views · 47 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 16 Jul 2026