Yoel Marcus (Hebrew: יואל מרקוס) (5 February 1932 – 23 February 2022) was an Israeli journalist and political commentator.
Marcus was born in Istanbul on 5 February 1932. At the age of eleven, he immigratedtoMandatory Palestine alone with Youth Aliyah. He was sent to the youth villageatKibbutz Yagur, near Haifa. [1]
Marcus died on 23 February 2022, shortly after his 90th birthday.[2]
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]
