Overview
- News organizations reported on Wednesday that veteran broadcaster Haim Yavin died at the age of 93, triggering nationwide obituaries and tributes.
- Yavin was a founding face of Israeli television who anchored the flagship nightly news program Mabat from the launch of TV and later served in senior public-broadcasting roles.
- He is credited with coining the term "Mahapach" during live coverage of the 1977 elections, a phrase that entered Israel’s political vocabulary.
- After leaving the daily anchor chair, Yavin produced an extensive body of documentaries—reports say roughly 100—that probed social and political rifts, including relations between secular institutions and the charedi community.
- A funeral has been announced for Friday at Givat HaShlosha Cemetery at 11:00 a.m., and obituaries note a factual discrepancy in sources about the year he received the Israel Prize for communications, which requires archival confirmation.