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Amnon Lord

Israeli journalist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ2895555 ↗
Source-derived summary

Amnon Lord (Hebrew: אמנון לורד; born 1952, Kibbutz Ein Dor, Israel), is an Israeli journalist with the daily newspaper Makor Rishon.

Lord's articles and essays about media, film, and politics have been published in The Jerusalem Post, Mida, Azure, Nativ, and Achshav. Lord wrote and anchored a TV series about the beginnings of Israeli cinema. He is the author of The Israeli Left: From Socialism to Nihilism (2003), a political and historical analysis of the Israeli Left from a personal perspective.

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“Amnon Lord” enters the record as israeli journalist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Amnon, Lord and Israeli can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952, 2003—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1952-01-01, 1952-07-28—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Amnon, Lord and Israeli.
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Why this record matters

“Amnon Lord” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Amnon, Lord and Israeli provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2895555. VIAF identifies the subject as 22420609. The Library of Congress control number is no99019268. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1952 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Amnon Lord” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.