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Yoel Markus

Yoel Marcus was an Israeli journalist and political commentator who wrote for Haaretz for decades.

1932 to 2022Political commentary in HaaretzReporting Begin's 1983 withdrawalReporting Sharon's disengagement plan

Born: 5 February 1932, Istanbul
Died: 22 February 2022, Tel Aviv
Occupation: journalist, opinion journalist

Yoel Markus was born in 1932 in Istanbul

Marcus was born in Istanbul on 5 February 1932. In 1943, at the age of 11, he came alone to the Land of Israel with Youth Aliyah. He was placed in a youth village and later fought in the War of Independence.

In 1950 he won a writing contest held by the weekly HaOlam HaZeh and then began writing for Herut. He moved to the Mapai paper HaDor in 1953 and to Davar in 1955, where he was a military and political reporter. In 1965 he joined Haaretz and served as its correspondent in Western Europe until 1968.

From 1977 to 1980 he was the paper's correspondent in the United States. His columns were short and split into numbered comments. In September 1983 he reported that Prime Minister Menachem Begin was withdrawing from public life, and in February 2004 Ariel Sharon told him of his plan to evacuate settlements from Gaza.

He stopped writing opinion columns for Haaretz in 2016. He was married to Leah until her death in 2012. Marcus died on 23 February 2022.