Yoel Marcus

Yoel Marcus (Hebrew: יואל מרקוס) (5 February 1932 – 23 February 2022) was an Israeli journalist and political commentator.

Biography

Marcus was born in Istanbul on 5 February 1932. At the age of eleven, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine alone with Youth Aliyah. He was sent to the youth village at Kibbutz Yagur, near Haifa. [1]

Marcus died on 23 February 2022, shortly after his 90th birthday.[2]

Journalism career

Marcus was a commentator for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. He believed in brevity, no more than 600 words per column, and divided his columns into numbered "comments."[3] In 2007, he won a lifetime achievement award at the Eilat journalism conference.[4] In 2017, he won the Sokolov Prize for journalism. [5]


References

  1. ^ The Journalist Who Witnessed Israel's Entire History, Haaretz
  2. ^ "Yoel Marcus, 'journalist who witnessed Israel's entire history,' dies at 90". Israel Hayom. 23 February 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  3. ^ The Journalist Who Witnessed Israel's Entire History, Haaretz
  4. ^ Fellow Journalists to Honor Haaretz Commentator Yoel Marcus in Eilat, Haaretz
  5. ^ Yoel Marcus, Veteran Haaretz Reporter Who Broke Some of Israel's Biggest New Stories, Dies at 90, Haaretz