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Eli Azur


Eli Azur is an Israeli businessman and the head of Mirkaei Tikshoret, a Tel Aviv-based media company.

Azur started his career as a sportswriter for Hadashot.

Azur is the owner of advertising rights for Israel Plus. With Pini Zahavi, he also runs Charlton, a company which owns broadcasting rights for football matches in Israel.

Through Mirkaei Tikshoret, he runs radio stations in Israel and The Jerusalem Post. Canadian investor Leonard Asper sued for a controlling stake in the Post in 2005 after failed negotiations with Azur. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2006. In 2012, he launched Sof Hashavua, a newspaper only published on Fridays. In 2014, he acquired Maariv, another Israeli newspaper.


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