Guy Rolnik

Who is Guy Rolnik?

Guy Rolnik is the Founder, creator and Founding Editor of TheMarker – one of Israel's most influential media organization in the last decade. Rolnik is also the Deputy Publisher of the Haaretz Group.

Rolnik is considered one of Israel's top journalists and editors. He is recognized by the organizations who gave him awards, as well as other journalists, as having a unique, independent and defiant voice in the Israeli press, standing up to Israel's most powerful business people, politicians and media.

Rolnik, a free market advocate is known for pointing out the many market failures in the Israeli economic system, both in the private and public sector, and the need to create values and a culture that promote productivity, effectiveness and equal opportunities.

In the last few years, Rolnik led a few journalistic campaigns that changed Israeli public discourse and the Israeli government's economic policies in many areas, mainly regarding structural reforms in the business and capital sectors.

Beginning in 2005, Rolnik set out on a campaign that included hundreds of columns, stories and features regarding the perils of the concentration of economic power in few hands in the Israeli economy and the danger is posed to competitiveness, prices, innovation and democracy. Pursuant to this campaign, in October 2010, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bank of Israel's Governor Prof. Stanley Fischer set up a committee tasked with formulating recommendations for increasing competitiveness and decreasing concentration in the Israeli business sector. Its final recommendations were published on February 22nd 2012.