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Doron Galezer ( he, דורון גלעזר; born 1952) is an Israeli
journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalis ...
, former chief executive editor of ''
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'' newspaper and former chief executive editor of , an Israeli
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television show. He previously served as the chairman of Israel's Editors Committee. Galezer was born and raised in Afeka
Tel-Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...
.


Politics

In 1973, at the age of 21, he was appointed spokesman of "Moked," a left wing movement. He then became a co-founder of the peace party, "Mahane Sheli", and served as its spokesman during the 1977 elections. Galezer did not continue in politics after the 1977 elections.


Professional Journalism

Galezer started his journalistic career in the early 1980s at Jerusalem weekly newspaper, Kol Ha-Ir, which earned an impressive reputation as qualitative, bold, liberal that included exclusive interviews and extensive in-depth investigative reporting. In the mid-1990s, Galezer was appointed editor in chief of Schocken Group's local newspapers. At the end of 1996, Galezer was appointed editor in chief of "7 Days" weekly magazine in Yediot Aharonot, then the most widely circulated magazine in Israel. He earned a name as a bold editor who published many important stories of government corruption and questionable connections between tycoons and politicians – including the first investigative reporting about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's family receiving gifts (The Amedi case) and his wife's problematic behavior (The Sara case). The weekly magazine also published exposes of a series of military and security falures – one of which won the most important journalistic award in Israel for research about the high propensity of cancer among naval commando sailors due to training exercises in the polluted
Kishon river The Kishon River ( he, נחל הקישון, ; ar, نهر المقطع, , or , – ''the river of slaughter'' or ''dismemberment''; alternative Arabic, ) is a river in Israel that flows into the Mediterranean Sea near the city of Haifa. Course ...
. Continuing his successful track record, Galezer was appointed Deputy Editor in Chief of Yedioth Aharonot in charge of all the papers' magazines.


Television career

At the beginning of the millennium, Galezer retired from Yedioth Aharonot to pursue a television career and served for 6 years as editor in chief of the Israeli investigative TV show, with Ilana Dayan. Galezer introduced a dramatic change in the program's format and engaged, alongside Ilana Dayan, a team of star reporters and investigative journalists, such as Itai Engel, Omri Assenhaim, Orly Vilnai, Igal Musco and Roni Kuban. Under his leadership, ''Uvda'' published investigative reports about criminals taking over 'Roberto' Models Agency, Israir airlines cover-up of a near accident at Ben Gurion airport, Captain R' - killing of a girl by the Israeli Army at Girit base, the Ferinian case – an investigation leading to a Commission of Inquiry and ousting of police inspector general Moshe Karadi, and Anthrax experiments done on special units’ soldiers, an investigation that also led to establishing a Commission of Inquiry.


Journalism

At the end of 2007 Galezer was appointed co-editor in chief of Maariv newspaper alongside Ruth Yuval replacing Amnon Dankner. Galezer and Yuval succeeded in cutting its losses (from ILS 5 million to ILS 1 million) and stopped the decrease in circulation, but resigned In 2009, following disagreements with Maariv's publisher, Ofer Nimrodi. Since 2009, Galezer has been a member of the press council, a board member of
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international documentary film festival, and an investigative press lecturer at Th
Tel Aviv Academic College
and The
Netanya Academic College Netanya Academic College ( he, האקדמית נתניה, ''HaAkademit Netanya'') is a private college based in Netanya, Israel. Established in 1994 by a team from Bar-Ilan University, it has an enrolment of around 4,000 undergraduate students. It ...
. In 2017, Galezer, together with David Deri and Ruth Yuval, created the movie and TV series, "The Ancestral Sin" ("Sallah, this is Eretz Israel") revealing how immigrants from North Africa were deceitfully settled in distant, forgotten, small towns during the 1950s and 1960s.


References

Globes
"Ma'ariv" editors resign


External links


The Docaviv festival: THE ANCESTRAL SIN
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