Ya'akov Eilon

Ya'akov Eilon
Eilon in 2006
Born (1961-05-03) 3 May 1961
Nationality Israeli
Other names Jacob Eilon
Alma mater Tel Aviv University
Occupation Journalist and anchorman

Ya'akov Eilon (Hebrew: יעקב אילון‎, born 3 May 1961) is an Israeli television presenter and journalist. Alongside Miki Haimovich, he was the anchor of Channel 2 and Channel 10 news.[1]

Biography

He was born in Bat Yam as Ya'akov Pijade to Bulgarian Jewish parents. At the age of 14, he started writing for a youth newspaper. After serving in Galei Tzahal and graduating from Tel Aviv University, he lived in New York and worked there as a US correspondent for Yedioth Ahronoth for several years.

Media and journalism career

Eilon at i24 news studio

On 4 November 1993, Eilon anchored Channel 2's first news broadcast.[2] In 1995, he was among the people who covered the release of the Kempler video[3] in the aftermath of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. He frequently presented the news together with Miki Haimovich until he left Channel 2 in 2000 and moved to Channel 10 in 2002. He was reunited with Haimovich a year later, when she joined Channel 10.

In February 2012, Eilon sent his resignation to Channel 10 CEO Uri Rozen via email. Eilon and Haimovich weathered the economic storms that have frequently rocked Channel 10, but Eilon – among other highly paid staff members – did not get his January salary on time and was subsequently informed that the channel’s management would be instituting a 15-percent pay cut among employees in the higher wage bracket.[4] It is believed he quit because Channel 10 recently had to start broadcasting the main edition out of Jerusalem, whilst the rest of the producers, editors and reporters remained in the Tel Aviv studio. He claimed: "Even if the viewers do not fully understand that the studio picture is being projected behind me electronically, they notice, for example, that there are no more interviews in the new studio, and that we recently experienced a series of technical failures." [5] He presented his last broadcast on Channel 10 at 29 April 2012.

Afterwards, he returned to Channel 2 as a news anchor for Keshet. During that period, he made an acclaimed documentary about anti-Semitism. He also anchored at the Israeli global news channel i24news, presenting weekly program The World This Week. That program had disappointing viewer rates and was therefore taken off air.

In January 2015, he returned to TV as a host of the prime time news program Mabat on the Israel Broadcasting Authority owned Channel 1 and remained on this program for almost almost two years.

In 2017, he became an anchor and editor at Walla! News, where he is still active.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Behind the Lines / Anchors away Haaretz, 24 January 2008
  2. ↑ חדשות 2 (2010-09-26), מהדורת החדשות הראשונה של ערוץ 2, retrieved 2018-06-15
  3. ↑ Gery Mn (2014-08-30), רצח רבין-התיעוד המלא, retrieved 2018-06-15
  4. ↑ The Jerusalem Post, 22 February 2012
  5. ↑ Walla, 21 February 2012
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