Yoel Esteron is an Israel

Israel

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i journalist

Journalist

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. He is the founder and publisher of Calcalist

Calcalist

Calcalist is a daily business newspaper published in Israel by the Yedioth Ahronoth Group. The group also publishes Yedioth Ahronoth, the country's most widely circulated newspaper. Calcalist was first published February 18 2008, and currently runs five days a week, with a weekend supplement...

, a business newspaper and media group owned by Yedioth Ahronoth

Yedioth Ahronoth

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.

Biography

Yoel Esteron earned a degree in economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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 and a master's degree in communications.

Media career

Esteron worked for Israel Defense Forces Radio as a military correspondent during the 1973 Yom Kippur War

Yom Kippur War

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. He was a diplomatic correspondent during Henry Kissinger

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's shuttle diplomacy in the region in 1974-1975. He was a correspondent and editor at Channel 1

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 for six years before moving to the printed media.

In the 1980s he was Editor-in-Chief of Jerusalem's Kol HaIr weekly and Tel Aviv HaIr

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 weekly, then Hadashot

Hadashot

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's Washington bureau chief between 1988 and 1991 and then the newspaper's Editor-in Chief between 1991 and 1993. For 10 years, 1994 to 2004, he served as Managing Editor of Haaretz

Haaretz

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. 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

International Herald Tribune

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. 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

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