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 immigrated 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
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