Yaron London (Hebrew: ירון לונדון, born 24 August 1940) is an Israeli media personality, journalist, actor and songwriter.
London was born in Tel Aviv in 1940 to actor Bezalel London (1900–71).
London studied in the Herzliya Hebrew High School and later left it for the agricultural boarding school HaKfar HaYarok. In 1961, after his service in the IDF, he moved to Jerusalem to study graphics at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. In 1962, during h...
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Yaron London (Hebrew: ירון לונדון, born 24 August 1940) is an Israeli media personality, journalist, actor and songwriter.
London was born in Tel Aviv in 1940 to actor Bezalel London (1900–71).
London studied in the Herzliya Hebrew High School and later left it for the agricultural boarding school HaKfar HaYarok. In 1961, after his service in the IDF, he moved to Jerusalem to study graphics at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. In 1962, during his studies, he began working for Kol Yisrael as a news announcer. He hosted HaYom HaZeh ("This day"), the first current affairs program in Israeli electronic media.
In 1969 he was sent by the Israel Broadcasting Authority to Paris as its correspondent in Western Europe. In the early 1970s he returned to Israel and joined Channel One as a talk show host, and later became head of the drama department. He also directed several documentaries.
In 1988 he left the television to become a correspondent and publicist in Yediot Aharonot. In 1990 he...
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