Draft:Arnon Mozes

"'Arnon (Noni) Mozes" (born on April 1 1953) is the controlling owner and chairman of the board of directors in the "Yedioth Ahronoth" is the publisher of a daily newspaper of the same name and the operator of the online news website "ynet". Serves as the Editor-in-chief of the newspaper.

Since 2020, a criminal trial has been ongoing against him, as part of the "Case 2000", on the charge of attempting to bribe Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu.

Biography

Mozes was born in Ramat Gan as the second of four children of Noah Mozes and Paula Mozes, the owner and editor of the popular newspaper "Yediot Ahronoth". Studied in Ramat Gan at the "Nitzanim" elementary school and the "Ohel Shem" high school. When he was about five years old, his older brother was run over by a bus and seriously injured.

On September 25 1967, at the age of 14, he was driving his father's car in his neighborhood in Ramat Gan, in the presence of his father, lost control of the vehicle and ran over 10-year-old Rachel Shabi who was walking on the sidewalk to death. His father was sentenced to a year in prison, and was released five months later, after the Israeli President at the time, Zalman Shazar, commuted his sentence.

Served in the IDF]] as a Youth Instructor.

After his military service, he completed a bachelor's degree in economics at Tel Aviv University, and studied for one year for a master's degree in economics at Boston University, but did not complete the degree. In those years he played basketball for four seasons in the senior team of Maccabi Ramat Gan basketball club, and then one season in Hapoel Ramat Gan, two top teams in the Israeli National League, the first league at the time.

professional-business career

In his twenties Mozes became involved in the "Yediot Ahronoth" desk, and served as a sports reporter. Under the auspices of his father, he began to be involved in the newspaper's editing and production. Initially, Mozes was a sports reporter and the actual editor of the newspaper, and was involved in editorial content. He did not appoint a CEO for "Yediot Ahronoth", but distributed the management powers among several deputy directors.

In 1985 his father was run over to death. In the succession struggle that developed in the newspaper, he was a friend of his sister Judy Nir Mozes and pushed the feet of his cousins, of his sister Tammy Mozes-Borovitch and Dov Yodkovski, who served Acting editor until 1989.

Upon taking over from his father, Noni Mozes clashed with his partner Dov Yudkovsky in a dispute that lasted several decades, and after Yudkovsky died, the dispute with his heirs continued. In 1992, Moshe Vardi, as editor of Yedioth Ahronoth, initiated wiretapping for Dov Yudkovsky. Vardi sought to locate the source of leaks of information from the newspaper. In 1996, Mozes fired Vardi, after he was indicted in the wiretapping affair, and appointed Eylon Shalev in his place.

In 1998 Vardi was convicted of using wiretaps, but was acquitted of ordering them. In 1999 Mozes dismissed his charges and returned Vardi. In this case, Mozes was questioned by the police, and at the end of his interrogation, the police transferred the case to the prosecutor's office in order to prosecute him for wiretaps, but the prosecutor's office decided to close the case against him on the grounds of lack of evidence. In this case, he was also suspected of wiretapping the coordinator of reporters at "Yediot Aharonot" Ruth Ben Ari. In January 2021, after many legal battles, Yudkowsky's heirs sold all of their shares in the Yedioth Group.

In 1990, Mozes agreed with Amos Schocken that Yedioth Ahronoth would acquire 16.7% of Haaretz Group for approximately $10 million, and in 1992 an agreement was signed defining the amount as a ten-year loan.

Mozes had significant ownership in the cable television companies in Israel together with Eliezer Fishman starting in the early 1990s, through the company "Yedioth Communications". In 2011 Moses sold about 13% of his holdings in HOT for about 650 million NIS to businessman Patrick Drahi, and remained with about 3% of the company's shares.

In 1994 his mother, Paula Moses, died of cancer. In her inheritance, she left control of the newspaper to Noni Moses. His sisters, Judy Shalom Nir-Moses and Tami Moses-Borowitz, were given a share of ownership, but they are not involved in the day-to-day management. A battle of intrigue ensued over the inheritance of the newspaper, until finally the "rebel" family members were pushed out, and the newspaper remained in his ownership. of Noni Moses. Judy entrusted her shares in the newspaper to her brother Noni, and the younger sister, Tami, did not give up and fought for four more years until she also decided to leave and sold her shares to businessman Eliezer Fishman, owner of the newspaper Globes, in a deal estimated at 45–60 million dollars. After Fishman bankruptcy, his shares were transferred to Bank Hapoalim.

Mozes owns approximately 30% of the shares of Yediot Ahronoth Ltd., and with the support of his close family members (Judy Shalom Nir Mozes and Miriam Nopach-Mozes), he has a 60% majority among the opinion leaders in the company, and is therefore the de facto controlling shareholder in the company. Mozes' senior business partner was businessman Eliezer Fishman. By virtue of this holding, Mozes also owns "Yediot Communications", the parent company of Yediot Ahronoth's local newspapers.

During Mozes' time, many magazines were added to the Yediot Ahronoth group, including "Panai Plus", "Blazer", "Go Style" and more, and in 2008 the economic daily "Calcalist began to appear. The group also published Vesti, which was aimed at immigrants from the Soviet Union. Mozes Joined the partnership in the record company NMC{{Note|

In the The second decade of the 21st century, Yedioth Ahronoth found itself in fierce competition with the free Yisrael Hayom]]. During this period, Mozes also led the transfer of the Yedioth Ahronoth group from several buildings in Tel Aviv to a shared building in Rishon LeZion. In 2013, the Yedioth Ahronoth building in Tel Aviv was sold to David Azrieli for 374 million NIS.