Itzik Yosha is a journalist, broadcaster, editor, and author whose career has spanned more than four decades across print, radio, and television. He began his professional path in the early 1980s as a cultural journalist and editor, quickly establishing himself as a prominent voice in Israeli arts and media coverage. He later became one of the founding journalists of the influential daily newspaper Hadashot, where he wrote extensively on culture, society, and the evolving Israeli public sphere. During the 1990s, Yosha worked as a senior cultural writer and editor for Yedioth Ahronoth, one of Israel’s leading newspapers, further solidifying his reputation as a respected commentator on literature, music, and contemporary culture. Alongside his print journalism, he developed an extensive career in television and public broadcasting, editing and producing programs for major Israeli networks and radio stations. Since 1997, he has hosted The Sixth World, a long-running radio program devoted to world music and cultural exploration, regarded as one of Israel’s most enduring and distinctive cultural broadcasts. In parallel with his journalistic work, Yosha has pursued a literary career, publishing works of fiction and prose that explore themes of identity, memory, family, and Israeli society. His writing is noted for its introspective tone and its blending of personal narrative with broader cultural reflection. Between 1997 and 2003, Yosha served as chairman of the LGBT association, later returning to its ranks after a number of years. In 2011, he completed a training course in support for survivors of sexual assault, and has since volunteered regularly as a counselor on the men’s helpline at the Tel Aviv rape crisis center. Yosha was a prominent activist within the LGBT community throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In the early 1990s he was among the founders and organizers of the Tel Aviv community’s defense watches — patrols established in response to hostile and violent homophobic gangs targeting the gay population. As both a journalist and a community activist, he closely followed the struggle of Adir Steiner for legal recognition as the partner of Colonel Doron Meizel, accompanying the landmark case as it unfolded. In July 2022, he received a commendation for the advancement of the LGBT community in Israel, awarded by the Minister for Social Equality. In May 2025, he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for LGBT community visibility — the Israeli equivalent of the American GLAAD Awards — presented by the National Pride Conference, held at the Ramat Gan Museum. Today, he continues to work in public broadcasting and cultural programming while remaining active in the literary and artistic community.