Yoel Esteron

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Yoel Esteron (Hebrew: יואל אסתרון‎) is an Israeli journalist, the founder and publisher of "Calcalist", a business newspaper and media group, which belongs to "Yedioth Ahronoth", the leading group in Israel.

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 moving to the printed media. In the 1980s he was Editor-in-Chief of Jerusalem's Kol HaIr weekly and Tel Aviv HaIr 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. In the years 2005-2007 he served as Managing Editor of "Yedioth Ahronoth", the largest circulation newspaper in Israel.