Eytan Avriel (; born December 11, 1960) is an Israeli journalist and economic commentator, he is a founder of TheMarker and serves as the current Editor-in-Chief of TheMarker magazine. Biography Avriel has a BSc in Biology and Business Administration from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1988) and an MBA from the same institution (2006), specializing in Financial engineering. He is also an alumnus of the Singularity University at Silicon Valley.
Avriel served in the Israeli Navy, in Shayetet 13 and the unit for underwater tasks. He is married, has a daughter and a son and lives in Hod Hasharon, Israel.
Avriel writes and speaks extensively on Israel's economy, business and society, including crony capitalism and institutional preference toward media owners,"How Bankrupt Israeli Tycoon Eliezer Fishman Got Away With It for So Long", Eytan Avriel, Haaretz, NOV 3, 2015, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2015-11-03/ty-article/.premium/how-bankrupt-tycoon-got-away-with-it-for-so-long/0000017f-e97f-d62c-a1ff-fd7fa8330000"The Men Who Came to Dinner With Bibi", Eytan Avriel, Haaretz, JAN 10, 2015, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2015-01-10/ty-article/.premium/the-men-who-came-to-dinner-with-bibi/0000017f-db58-db22-a17f-fff98f5d0000"The Ultimate Haircut", Eytan Avriel, Haaretz, OCT 23, 2012, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2012-10-23/ty-article/.premium/eytan-avriel-the-ultimate-haircut/0000017f-f595-d460-afff-fff7fb8b0000"Tycoon Taking His Business Out of Israel? Not So Fast", Eytan Avriel, Haaretz, APR 7, 2015, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2015-04-07/ty-article/.premium/tycoon-leaving-israel-yeah-right/0000017f-e0a5-d568-ad7f-f3ef70430000 the energy sector,"What $10 Billion Can Do for One’s Ego", Eytan Avriel, Haaretz, JUL 16, 2015, "The Final Nail in the Coffin of Israel's Natural Gas Framework", Eytan Avriel, Haaretz, OCT 6, 2015, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2015-10-06/ty-article/.premium/the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-israels-natural-gas-framework/0000017f-e4a1-d38f-a57f-e6f3bf020000"Gas-price Comparison: A Convenient Untruth for Israel's Gov't", Eytan Avriel, Haaretz, JUL 21, 2015, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2015-07-21/ty-article/.premium/gas-price-comparison-a-convenient-untruth/0000017f-f52a-d460-afff-ff6eb7960000 political economy, the housing price bubble,"Not Everyone in Israel Wants Housing Prices to Fall", Eytan Avriel, Haaretz, MAY 14, 2015, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2015-05-14/ty-article/.premium/not-everyone-wants-housing-prices-to-fall/0000017f-dc81-d3ff-a7ff-fda1d7770000 macroeconomic policy,"There’s Little They Can Do for Israel's Economy, but Let’s Pressure Our Politicians Anyway", Eytan Avriel, Haaretz, MAR 5, 2015, https://www.haaretz.com/2015-03-05/ty-article/.premium/lets-pressure-israels-pols-anyway/0000017f-f5f8-d460-afff-fffeb3360000"Is a Strong Shekel Really So Bad? ", Eytan Avriel, Haaretz, MAY 13, 2014, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2014-05-13/ty-article/.premium/is-a-strong-shekel-really-so-bad/0000017f-e8c8-d62c-a1ff-fcfbfbfe0000 digital life, Israel's "Start-up Nation", and Cybercrime."Israeli Forex Traders Being Targeted By Hacker Gangs Extorting Money", Haarerz, OCT 9, 2015, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2015-10-09/ty-article/.premium/israeli-forex-traders-being-targeted-by-hacker-gangs-extorting-money/0000017f-db11-df9c-a17f-ff192c650000 Avriel is also quoted by non-Israeli outlets."As Populism Grows in Israel, Big Business Lands in the Crosshairs", Knowledge@Wharton, OCT 17, 2013, http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/populism-grows-israel-big-business-finds-crosshairs/
Journalism career Avriel's first work in financial journalism was as the economic correspondent for Haaretz at the Israeli Ministry of Finance and at the Bank of Israel. Avriel then moved to Reuters where he founded the business desk at Reuters Israel and launched new media products. Some of these include a Hebrew language business news services, and a money market exchanges and mobile financial data platform. During the 90s Avriel worked as an investment manager of mutual funds, and as an investment banker.
In 1999 Avriel founded the economic news platform TheMarker along with Guy Rolnik and Ido Pollak. As part of this venture he also founded a new daily newspaper (2005), a monthly economic magazine (2001), TheMarker cafe social network and an internet video channel. Avriel served as the founding editor of TheMarker's website.
He is a columnist writing on social and political economics, crony capitalism, the relations of money and power, investments, foreign currency, banking, the internet, and the impact of new technologies on the society and the economy. Avriel launched a number of known news products such as the "500 most wealthy Israelis""These Are the 500 Richest People in Israel", Eytan Avriel, Haaretz, JUN 11, 2015, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2015-06-11/ty-article/.premium/who-are-the-500-richest-israelis/0000017f-debd-d856-a37f-fffdc3ca0000 and "100 most influential Israelis""Gas Tycoons, Netanyahu Top TheMarker's List of 100 Most Influential Israelis", Eytan Avriel, Haaretz, SEP 14, 2015, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2015-09-14/ty-article/.premium/gas-tycoons-bibi-on-top-100-list/0000017f-da7d-d42c-afff-dfffd3e70000 lists. In 2012, Avriel was nominated Editor-in-Chief of TheMarker's magazine.
In 2005 Avriel was a member of an Israeli Securities Authority committee to set an ethics code for the distribution of financial information over the internet.
In 2012 Avriel published a column regarding the status of the Ma'ariv newspaper. In response Ma'ariv published an edition of their paper with four columns on the front page responding to Avriel's column. The entire ordeal was covered by The Jerusalem Post.
Avriel has a recurring position on London et Kirshenbaum, a widely watched Israeli talk show. He also appears as a commentator on the Israeli Army Radio, Reshet B, and other TV and radio outlets. He has lectured the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and Tel Aviv University.
See also Economy of Israel Israeli journalism
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