Mordecai Naor

Mordecai Naor

Mordechai Naor ( Hebrew מֹרְדְּכַי נָאוֹר Mordechaj Na'ōr ; born August 19, 1934 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli historian, writer and journalist. From 1974 to 1978 he was director of the Israeli military radio broadcaster , and as a historian he specialized in the history of Israel .

biography

Mordechai Naor was born in Tel Aviv in 1934. He earned a bachelor's degree (1964) and a master's degree (1970) in social sciences from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a PhD in Jewish history from Tel Aviv University (1984) on Pinchas Sapir , an investigation into the path of a leader from the local at the national level.

After his military service, he was involved in the establishment of the kibbutz Nahal Oz on the edge of the Gaza Strip in the 1950s . From 1957 to 1971 he was editor-in-chief of various youth and military magazines. From 1974 to 1978 he headed the Israeli army broadcaster Galei Zahal , one of the two largest broadcasters in the country.

During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the station broadcast around the clock and Naor fought to continue this broadcast format after his appointment. During his tenure, he introduced innovations such as the use of the red telephone to get information from the audience and the Universitah meshuderet ( university broadcasts ). Naor fought for the independence of the military radio station from the Israeli broadcasting authority . In June 1978 he finished his tenure with Galei Zahal and became editor-in-chief of the publishing house of the Ministry of Defense .

From 1985 to 2003 he worked at the Research Institute of the Jewish Press at Tel Aviv University . He heads the Department of Israel Studies at Beit Berl .

Naor has written several dozen books (including biographies about Baron Rothschild, Pinchas Sapir, the chiefs of staff Jaakow Dori and Chaim Laskow ), some of which have also appeared in English and German. His best known work is Eretz Israel. The 20th century .

Publications (selection)

• Idan , seventeen-volume historiographical series, 1983–1992 (as editor)
• Kesher ( Qesher ), 1987–2003, biannual magazine about the Jewish press of Tel Aviv University (as editor)
• Yishuv Ha'Negev, 1900–1960 [= The Yishuv in the Negev, 1900–1960], Jerusalem 1985 (Heb.)
• (Ed.): The Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem , Israel 1987 (Heb.)
• The western wall. Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense Publishing House, 1988
• (Ed.): Sefer Rishonei Herzliya 1924–1934 [The Herzliya Pioneers, The Story of the First Settlers, 1924–1934], vol. 2 (Herzlia, 1990) (Heb.)
• The Aliyah Book , 1991
• The Hagana Lexicon , 1992 (as editor)
• Gesher ḥai. Tel Aviv: Miśrad ha-Biṭaḥon , 1993
• סֵפֶר הַמֵּאָה - הִיסְטוֹרְיָה מְצֻלֶּמֶת שֶׁל אֶרֶץ־יִשְׂרָאֵל (Sefer ha-Me'ah - Hīsṭōrjah məzullemet schel Eretz Jisra'el) , Tel Aviv:עַם עוֹבֵד (ʿAm ʿŌved) , 1996
• City of Hope - Jerusalem from Biblical to Modern Times , 1996
• The Twentieth Century in Eretz Israel - a Pictorial History , [סֵפֶר הַמֵּאָה - הִיסְטוֹרְיָה מְצֻלֶּמֶת שֶׁל אֶרֶץ־יִשְׂרָאֵל, Tel Aviv: עַם עוֹבֵד, 1996; engl.], Judith Krausz (transl.), Könemann, Cologne 1998
• Eretz Israel. The 20th century. , Könemann, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-89508-594-4
• The Jewish People in the 20th Century - A Pictorial History , 2001
• Zionism - The First 120 Years , 2002
• The Israeli Press , 2004
• The Israel Lexicon , 2008

Prices

Mordchai Naor has received numerous prestigious awards, including:

• Sokolow Prize for Journalism (2002),
• Herzl Prize (2006),
• Ben Gurion Prize (2007),
• Yitzhak Sadeh Prize (2013).

See also

• Voice of Israel ( Kol Israel )

References and footnotes

1. ↑ יוסף פריאל, הוסר סימן השאלה מעל גלי צה"ל, דבר, 9 ביולי 1978
2. ↑ יחיאל לימור, מפקד גלי צה"ל מסרב להיות בהנהלת רשות השידור, מעריב, 25 בספטמבר 1974
3. ↑ jewish-life.de - accessed on January 20, 2019

Web links

• Naor Mordecai, Institute for Research of the Jewish Press
• Naor Mordecai
• Mordecai Naor says goodbye to 'Kesher'