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Haim Yavin (Hebrew: חיים יבין, born Heinz Kluger
on 10 September 1932 in Nowa Wies), was one of Israel's leading television anchors. Born in Upper Silesia, Poland, he later immigrated to Israel.
Biography
Between 1968 and 2008, Yavin was the anchor of Mabat
(lit. "Outlook"), the primetime news roundup on Israel's state
television station, Channel 1, which he helped found. He
was known in Israel as "Mr. Television" and dubbed "Israel's Walter
Cronkite" by the American press. He was often perceived as
the "voice" of Israel. One of his famous sentences was "ladies and
gentlemen - a turnaround!" (Hebrew: "גבירותי ורבותי - מהפך!") after Menachem Begin's
Likud won the 1977 election. He
also served as chief editor
of Mabat.
Yavin sparked political controversy with his five-part documentary series The Land of the Settlers,
aired on Israel's Channel 2 in May 2005. The program
concluded that Israeli settlements were endangering
Israel, and Israel should withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with Yavin stating that "Since
1967, we have been brutal conquerors, occupiers, suppressing
another people." Israeli settlers were outraged by this partisan
approach by a leading newscaster.[1][2][3] At the
time, Ariel
Sharon's disengagement plan had not yet been
implemented, and the series was viewed as propaganda in support of
it. Many of the settlers, among them chairman of the Yesha Council,
called on Channel One to fire Yavin. Instead, the Israel Broadcasting
Authority signed him on for another year.
In August 2007, Yavin announced his retirement, and he read the
news for the last time on 5 February 2008.[4]
Awards
In 1997, Yavin was awarded the Israel Prize, for communications. [5]
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