Yoel Esteron ( he, יואל אסתרון), born in 1956, is the founder and publisher of the daily financial newspaper

Calcalist ''Calcalist'' ( he, כלכליסט, a Hebrew wordplay on ''The Economist'', from כלכלה) is an Israeli daily business newspaper and website. History and profile ''Calcalist'' was first published on 18 February 2008, and currently runs five d ...

, founded in 2008 and in recent years Israel's leading business daily newspaper and media group owned by

Yedioth Ahronoth ''Yedioth Ahronoth'' ( he, יְדִיעוֹת אַחֲרוֹנוֹת, ; lit. ''Latest News'') is a national daily newspaper published in Tel Aviv, Israel. Founded in 1939 in British Mandatory Palestine, ''Yedioth Ahronoth'' is the largest paid n ...

. According to SimilarWeb, which monitors websites, Calcalist.co.il has more than three millions unique users monthly, making it the most popular business website in the countryAbout Calcalist
/ref> In November 2017, Esteron Founded

CTech ''Calcalist'' ( he, כלכליסט, a Hebrew wordplay on ''The Economist'', from כלכלה) is an Israeli daily business newspaper and website. History and profile ''Calcalist'' was first published on 18 February 2008, and currently runs five d ...

(calcalistech.com), technology news site providing international readers with high-impact stories from the Israeli tech scene. Yoel Esteron 2

Esteron also started Calcalist's national and international prestigious conferences, among them "The Airborne Conference" to Silicon Valley, "Israel Forecasts" and "The National Conference" in Tel Aviv, "Mind The Tech" in New York London Berlin and Paris and Dubai; and many start-ups competitions. For many years he has been involved in the Israeli Hi-Tech scene. He serves on the boards of GAMI - WAN-IFRA Global Alliance for Media Innovation, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo, and Docaviv - Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival. In 2020 Esteron co-founded Shomrim www.hashomrim.org - Center for Media and Democracy in Israel - and is serving as Shomrim's chairman.

Biography

Yoel Esteron earned a degree in economics from the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

.Herzliya Conference, 2004

Media career

Esteron worked for

Israel Defense Forces Radio Army Radio ( he, גלי צה"ל lit. IDF waves) or Galei Tzahal, known in Israel by its acronym Galatz ( he, גל"צ), is a nationwide Israeli radio network operated by the Israel Defense Forces. The station broadcasts news, music, traffic report ...

as a military correspondent during the 1973

Yom Kippur War The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from October 6 to 25, 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egy ...

. He was a diplomatic correspondent during

Henry Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger (; ; born Heinz Alfred Kissinger, May 27, 1923) is a German-born American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presid ...

's shuttle diplomacy in the region in 1974-1975. He was a correspondent and editor at Channel 1 for six years before moving to the printed media. In the 1980s he was Editor-in-Chief of

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

Kol HaIr ''Kol Ha'ir'' (, lit ''The Whole City'', also a homophone for ''Voice of the City'') is a weekly local newspaper published in Jerusalem. It is part of the Schocken Group publishing network. See also *List of Israeli newspapers This list of ne ...

weekly and Tel Aviv HaIr weekly, then

Hadashot ''Hadashot'' (, lit. ''News'') was a Hebrew-language daily newspaper published in Israel between 1984 and 1993. History On 4 March 1984 Haaretz Group CEO Amos Schocken announced that a new daily newspaper, ''Hadashot'' was to be launched, with ...

Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...

bureau chief between 1988 and 1991 and then the newspaper's Editor-in-Chief between 1991 and 1993. For ten years, 1994 to 2004, he served as Managing Editor of

Haaretz ''Haaretz'' ( , originally ''Ḥadshot Haaretz'' – , ) is an Israeli newspaper. It was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel, and is now published in both Hebrew and English in the Berliner f ...

. As managing editor, in 1997 he founded the Haaretz English edition, in print and online as a joint venture of Haaretz and The

International Herald Tribune The ''International Herald Tribune'' (''IHT'') was a daily English-language newspaper published in Paris, France for international English-speaking readers. It had the aim of becoming "the world's first global newspaper" and could fairly be said ...

. In the years 2005-2007, he served as Managing Editor of Yedioth Ahronoth, the largest circulation newspaper in Israel. Esteron was a lecturer in Media and Politics at the Koteret School of Journalism in

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 G ...

. Since 2003, he has been teaching Media and Politics at the IDC school of government in Herzelia.

References

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