Yoel Esteron

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Yoel Esteron is an Israeli journalist, and has been Managing Editor of Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's leading newspaper, since January 2005.

Esteron started his career at the Israeli Defence Forces radio station as a military correspondent during the 1973 Yom Kippur War in the Middle East, and then as diplomatic correspondent during Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy in the region in 1974-1975. He was a correspondent and editor at Channel 1 for six years before he moved to the printed media. In the 1980s he was Editor-in-Chief of Jerusalem's Kol Ha'ir weekly and Tel Aviv Ha'ir weekly, then Hadashot'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.