Amos Schocken

Amos Schocken was born in 1944 in Tel Aviv

Amos Schocken was born in Tel Aviv on 6 December 1944 to Shulamit Persitz and Gershom Schocken, who edited and published Haaretz. His grandfather Zalman Schocken founded Schocken Books, and his grandmother Shoshana Persitz was a member of the first three Knessets for the General Zionists. As a child he worked at the newspaper in several jobs, including delivering papers.

He attended Ironi Aleph high school in Tel Aviv. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics and statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then completed a master's degree in business administration at Harvard University.

He served in the IDF in Mamram. After his release he joined Haaretz as an administrative assistant.

In 1972 he was appointed managing director of the Haaretz publishing company. In 1983, against his father's objection, he founded the newspaper Hadashot, which closed after 9 years because it failed financially. Haaretz Group, which he heads, also ran the Schocken network of local papers.

He is an art collector and founded the Haaretz Art Collection. In 1989 the door of his apartment was set on fire. In October 2024 his remarks at a Haaretz conference in London led the government to cut ties with the paper and many readers to cancel subscriptions, and he later clarified that Hamas members are not freedom fighters.