Noah Mozes

Noah Mozes (Hebrew: נח מוזס‎, 1912–October 7, 1985) was an Israeli newspaper publisher, and the long-time managing editor of the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth.^[1][2]

Biography

He was the son of Yehuda Mozes, and was initially an agronomist.^[1][2][3] In 1955, he became the publisher and managing editor of the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth, which in the late 1970s became Israel's biggest-selling newspaper.^[1][4]

He died on October 7, 1985, in Tel Aviv as a result of injuries incurred when he was hit by a city bus in a traffic accident, at the age of 73.^{[1][5][3][6][7]} His son, Arnon, known as "Noni", replaced him as publisher.^[1][5] His widow, Paula Mozes, died in 1997.^[1]

The Department of Communication and Journalism at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem was named after him in 1991, in a ceremony at which President Chaim Herzog spoke.^[8][9]

In 2005, he was voted the 199th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.^[10]

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