Yoel Esteron

Yoel Esteron (Hebrew: יואל אסתרון; born in 1956), is the founder and publisher of Israel’s leading daily financial newspaper Calcalist, founded in 2008. According to SimilarWeb, which monitors websites, Calcalist.co.il has more than four million unique users monthly, making it the most popular business website in the country. In November 2017, Esteron Founded CTech (calcalistech.com), a technology news site providing international readers with high-impact stories from the Israeli tech scene. Esteron also started Calcalist's national and international prestigious conferences, among them "The Airborne Conference" to Silicon Valley, "Israel Forecasts" and "The National Conference" in Tel Aviv, "Mind The Tech" in New York, London, Berlin, Paris and Dubai; and many start-ups competitions. For many years he has been involved in the Israeli Hi-Tech scene. He serves on the boards of GAMI - WAN-IFRA Global Alliance for Media Innovation, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo, and Docaviv - Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival. In 2020 Esteron co-founded with philanthropists Laura and Gary Lauder Shomrim www.shomrim.news - Center for Media and Democracy in Israel - and is serving as Shomrim's chairman.