Yoel Marcus (; 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
aliyah to Mandatory Palestine alone with
Youth Aliyah. He was sent to the
youth village at
Kibbutz Yagur, near
Haifa.
[ The Journalist Who Witnessed Israel's Entire History, Haaretz]
Marcus died on 23 February 2022, shortly after his 90th birthday.
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."
[ The Journalist Who Witnessed Israel's Entire History, Haaretz] In 2007, he won a lifetime achievement award at the
Eilat journalism conference.
[ Fellow Journalists to Honor Haaretz Commentator Yoel Marcus in Eilat, Haaretz] In 2017, he was awarded the
Sokolov Prize for lifetime achievement.
[ Yoel Marcus, Veteran Haaretz Reporter Who Broke Some of Israel's Biggest New Stories, Dies at 90, Haaretz]
