Ilana Dayan

Ilana Dayan-Orbach ( _he. אילנה דיין, born 1964) is an Israeli investigative journalist, jurist and anchorwoman. She is best known as host of the investigative television program "Uvda" ("Fact") on the Israeli Channel 2.

Biography

Dayan was born in Argentina in 1964 and immigrated to Israel with her family in 1970, and settled in the Yad Eliyahu neighborhood in Tel Aviv.Cite web
title = עובדה
work = Keshet-TV
accessdate = 2008-03-14
url = http://www.keshet-tv.com/UvdaReporter.aspx?ID=61248 he icon] Her grandfather's father, Eliyahu Dayan (1868-1925) was Shmuel Dayan's uncle.

She was drafted to the IDF during the First Lebanon War and served as producer, editor and correspondent for the Israel Army Radio. She was the first woman correspondent in the station's history. Near the end of her regular service she began presenting the morning program with Yitzhak Ben-Ner, and later with Micha Friedman. At the age of 23 became the first woman on the presenting staff of "Erev Hadash" ("New Evening") on the Israeli Educational Television.

Meanwhile, she attended the Tel Aviv University school of law, and after her internship she traveled to the United States to receive a PhD in law from the Yale University. During her studies there, she also wrote a bi-weekly column for Yediot Aharonot. On her return to Israel she began teaching courses in constitutional law in the Tel Aviv University faculty of law, where she still teaches as a visiting lecturer. She has expressed her support for Supreme Court of Israel President Dorit Beinisch and denounced Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann's attempts to limit the supreme court's judicial review.Cite news
last = Asheri
first = Ehud
title = Behind the Lines / Wholly Mozes
work = Haaretz
accessdate = 2008-03-14
date = 2007-11-29
url = http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/927198.html]

On November 1993, when the Israeli channel 2 was launched, she started hosting her television program, "Uvda" for Telad. It is the only program still being broadcasted on that channel for such a long time. In 2005, Uvda was purchased by Keshet, after Telad's concession was over. She also presents a morning program on current affairs for the Israel Army Radio.

She is married to Harel and is the mother of Yael, Zohar and Gonen. In 2005, she was voted 106 in Ynet's list of 200 Greatest Israelis,Cite news
last = בניוביץ'
first = גיא
title = הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין
work = Ynet
accessdate = 2008-03-14
date = 2005-05-11
url = http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html he icon] and was chosen the most infuential woman in Israeli culture in the 2008 "Woman" festival in Holon.Cite news
last = Shaviv
first = Miriam
title = Israel's most influential woman?
work = Jerusalem Post
accessdate = 2008-03-14
date = 2008-03-06
url = http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204546415018&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull] Cite news
last = כרמל
first = אסף
title = האישה המשפיעה בתרבות הישראלית: אילנה דיין
work = TheMarker
accessdate = 2008-03-14
date = 2008-03-09
url = http://career.themarker.com/tmc/article.jhtml?ElementId=skira20080309_545 he icon]

Controversies

The Captain R. affair

In 2005 Uvda broadcast a documentary on the killing of 13 year old Iman Darweesh Al Hams by IDF troops in the Gaza Strip. According to her investigation, the commanding officer, identified as Captain R. verified her death by shooting her from point-blank range.Cite news
last = Lynfield
first = Ben
title = Israeli army under fire after killing girl
work = The Christian Science Monitor
accessdate = 2008-03-14
date = 2004-11-26
url = http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1126/p07s01-wome.html] Captain R. was eventually acquitted by a court martial. Following his Acquittal, he filed a lawsuit against her and channel 2 for libel.Cite news
last = Carmel
first = Asaf
title = Journalist Ilana Dayan, Channel 2 submit defense in Cpt. R. libel suit
work = Haaretz
accessdate = 2008-03-14
date = 2006-07-02
url = http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=733743] The Jerusalem District Court has denied Captain R.'s demand that Dayan reveal her sources.Cite news
last = רוט
first = נורית
title = בית המשפט הכריע: העיתונאית אילנה דיין אינה מחויבת לחשוף מקורות בפרשת וידוא ההריגה וסרן ר'
work = TheMarker
accessdate = 2008-03-15
date = 2007-08-26
url = http://www.themarker.com/tmc/article.jhtml?log=tag&ElementId=nr20070826_95657 he icon]

The Brothers Parinyan affair

in April 2005 Uvda suggested that a senior police officer, Yoram Levy, a senior police officer, was effectively representing the interests of the Parinyan crime family within the police, after criminal Pinhas Buhbut was murdered by a cop. Following the program, a police investigation found Levy not guilty and close the case, but did write down a disciplinary offense for Levy for using the brothers as sources. Near the end of the year, the Zeiler Commission appointed to investigate the police proceedings during the affair. according to Justice Vardi Zeiler, "if not for Ilana Dayan and her television program, this case wouldn't have been revived and no one would have known what happened. These are things that can be said with absolute certainty".Cite news
last = Shavit
first = Ari
coauthors = Yuval Yoaz
title = Zeiler: Israel could be on its way to becoming mafia-type regime
work = Haaretz
accessdate = 2008-03-14
date = 2007-02-22
url = http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/828647.html] The commission report eventually led to the resignation of police commissioner Moshe Karadi and the discharge of Levy.Cite news
last = Feldman
first = Avigdor
title = Scripted by Scorsese?
work = Haaretz
accessdate = 2008-03-14
url = http://news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArtStEngPE.jhtml?itemNo=829389&contrassID=2&subContrassID=15&title='Scripted%20by%20Scorsese?%20'&dyn_server=172.20.5.5] Levy filed a lawsuit for libel against Dayan,Cite news
last = חסון
first = ניר
title = נצ"מ יורם לוי הגיש תביעת דיבה נגד אילנה דיין
work = Haaretz
accessdate = 2008-03-15
date = 2007-03-28
url = http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/843262.html he icon] arguing that her report exaggerated his part in the affair.Cite news
last = Grinberg
first = Mijal
title = Levy's wife: Report focused too much on my husband
work = Haaretz
accessdate = 2008-03-14
date = 2007-02-21
url = https://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/827829.html]

The Moshe Katsav affair

In March 2007 Uvda was accused of portrayed the suspended President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, as fraternizing with criminals and systematically sexually assaulting female employees and then intimidating them into silence on the eve of his hearing with Attorney General Menachem MazuzCite news
last = Stoil
first = Rebecca Anna
coauthors = Dan Izenberg
title = Katsav suspected of additional rape
work = Jerusalem Post
accessdate = 2008-03-15
date = 2007-03-29
url = http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1173879202855] by Katsav's attorneys, who said they would file a slander suit against Dayan.Cite news
last = Yoaz
first = Yuval
title = Katsav questioned for allegedly raping accuser more than once
work = Haaretz
accessdate = 2008-03-14
date = 2007-03-29
url = http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/843726.html]

References

External links

*imdb name|1492476|Ilana Dayan