Sever Plocker

Sever Plocker was born in 1944 in Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic

Plocker was born in 1944 in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic to parents who had fled Poland during World War II. The family returned to Poland in 1946. In 1957 he immigrated to Israel, lived in Bat Yam and attended high school in Holon.

He received a deferral from IDF service to study at university. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in economics and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then served in the IDF as an economist in staff roles.

As a high school student he wrote film reviews for Al HaMishmar. From 1968 he was an economic reporter and editor there, became economic section editor in 1972 and was editor in chief from 1980 to 1987. At that paper he changed his first name from Severin to Sever.

In 1987 he became economic editor and commentator of Yedioth Ahronoth and helped found its daily business supplement, Mamon. He was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution in 2003 to 2004. He also wrote the personal column Sever's Diaries on ynet.

In 2009 he received a lifetime achievement award from the Tel Aviv Journalists Association. He is married with 2 children and lives in Tel Aviv.