About Yoel Markus
Lived 1932 – 2022 (aged 90). Yoel Markus was an Israeli journalist and opinion journalist.
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.
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." In 2007, he won a lifetime achievement award at the Eilat journalism conference. In 2017, he was awarded the Sokolov Prize for lifetime achievement.
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Who was Yoel Markus?
Israeli journalist and political commentator
When was Yoel Markus born?
Yoel Markus was born on 5 February 1932 in Istanbul.
When did Yoel Markus die?
Yoel Markus died on 22 February 2022 in Tel Aviv.
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Yoel Markus was a journalist and opinion journalist.
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Yoel Markus was Israeli.
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