Avi Mayer

Editor-in-Chief

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The Jerusalem Post

Avi Mayer is the Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post, the most-read English-language newspaper in Israel and the leading news outlet in the Jewish world.

He previously held leadership roles in some of the world's leading Jewish organizations, including serving as Managing Director of Global Communications and Public Affairs at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and as the international spokesperson of The Jewish Agency for Israel, the largest Jewish organization in the world, and of its then-Chairman, Natan Sharansky.

With a Twitter following of over 140,000 and a monthly audience in the millions, Avi is considered one of the most prominent millennial voices in Israel and the Jewish world. In 2013, he was named by The Algemeiner as one of the “Jewish 100”—the top one hundred people positively influencing Jewish life—along with then-U.S. President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and other leading figures. In 2016 he was named the third most influential person on ‘Jewish Twitter’ by JTA, just behind Prime Minister Netanyahu, and in 2017 he was named one of the most influential English-speaking immigrants in Israeli politics by The Jerusalem Post.

Avi has met with the President of the United States at the White House and with the Prime Minister of Israel at his official residence and has addressed lawmakers in both the U.S. Congress and the Knesset, Israel's parliament, on numerous occasions. He is regularly invited to discuss developments in Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish world on international news networks and he and his work have been featured in some of the world's leading publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and many others.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Maryland, he has worked for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs; the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C.; Hillel International; and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). He has served on the international boards of KAHAL, an organization for Jewish students studying abroad around the world, and ACCESS, AJC's young leadership program. He is a member of the ROI Community and a former participant in the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies' Jewish communal leadership program.
Born in New York and raised in Jerusalem and Maryland, Avi served in the Israel Defense Forces as a spokesperson to the international media.
He lives in Jerusalem.