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Aaron Klein is known to the tens of millions of listeners of conservative American radio for his regular, breathless Middle East news segments and commentary on some of the top-rated radio programs in the country. He is Jerusalem Bureau Chief for WorldNetDaily.com, a popular conservative news website. He serves as a co-host of ABC Radio's national "The John Batchelor Show." Klein also has a column that appears every week on Page 2 of The Jewish Press, which bills itself as America's largest weekly Jewish newspaper.
Klein regularly interviews top Middle East leaders and news makers, many times live on national radio. His previous exclusive interviews have included late-PLO Leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas chief Mahmoud al-Zahar, Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano, former Lebanese Prime Minister Michel Aoun, Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, imprisoned spy Jonathan Pollard, leaders of the Taliban, Palestinian negotiation minister Saeb Erekat, former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben Ami, worldwide Al-Muhajiroun leader Omar Bakri Muhammad, West Bank Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade leader Ala Senakreh, 2002 siege of the Church of the Nativity leader Jihad Jaara, among many others. Klein also secured the only interview with the families of the three U.S. contractors killed in the 2003 Gaza ambush.
Klein made headlines in 1999 when at age nineteen he spent time with and interviewed members Al-Muhajiroun, a group reportedly connected to al-Qaida. His article about the experience, "My Weekend with the Enemy," was published in major-city newspapers in four countries.
Klein also made news in November 2005 when he and nationally syndicated radio host Rusty Humphries interviewed the gun-toting senior leadership of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror organization.
Klein was in the papers again the next month when he was denied a journalist visa to broadcast with ABC Radio in Syria. Syrian officials were quoted as saying Klein's Jewish faith was a problem. The leaders of Lebanon, including Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and top parliamentarian and former Prime Minister Michel Aoun, condemned Syria for its refusal to admit Klein.
Klein previously served as editor in chief of the Commentator, the undergraduate student newspaper of Yeshiva University. He is the oldest of ten children and hails originally from Philadelphia.