Yoel Marcus

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

Yoel Marcus

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