Gershom Gustav Schocken (Hebrew: גרשום גוסטב שוקן, 29 September 1912 – 20 December 1990) was an Israeli journalist and politician who was editor of Haaretz for more than 50 years and a member of the Knesset for the Progressive Party between 1955 and 1959.

While in Heidelberg, he befriended fellow student Walter Gross, whom he would later work with for decades at Haaretz.

[1] Following Adolf Hitler's rise to power, he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1933 one year before the rest of his family,[2] and started working at Anglo-Palestine Bank, where he remained until 1936.

He died of liver cancer at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv on 20 December 1990 at the age of 78.

In 1983 he was named International Editor of the Year Award by the World Press Review for Haaretz's "excellence in coverage of Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982".