Jonathan Conricus (Hebrew: יהונתן קונריקוס; born 1979) is a Swedish-Israeli spokesperson and media commentator.

Conricus is a senior fellow at the think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies, based in Washington, DC, in the United States.

[2][1][3] His grandfather, Daniel Bornstein, grew up in Oswiecim in Poland, where the Germans built the Auschwitz concentration camp, and was a Holocaust survivor along with his sister.

[2][7] He then became responsible for analyzing military doctrines of the United States, Great Britain, France, and to some extent Germany.

[8] He was responsible for collecting information for UN forces deployed in war zones around the world, including in Nigeria, Somalia, Congo, and Ukraine, and assessing risks.

[8] Hours after the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Conricus returned to duty as a reservist and was appointed international spokesperson for the IDF.

[11] After the October 7, 2023, attack he said: "If Hamas were to come out of their hiding places.., return our hostages — all 212 of them — and surrender unconditionally, then the war would end.

"[12] Conricus is now a senior fellow at the think tank the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which is based in Washington, DC, in the United States.