At the age of eleven, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine alone with Youth Aliyah.
He was sent to the youth village at Kibbutz Yagur, near Haifa.
[1] Marcus died on 23 February 2022, shortly after his 90th birthday.
[2] Marcus was a commentator for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
"[3] In 2007, he won a lifetime achievement award at the Eilat journalism conference.