Ilana Dayan
| Ilana Dayan-Orbach | |
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| Born |
8 May 1964 Argentina |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Education | Tel Aviv University School of Law; Yale University |
| Occupation | Investigative journalist, anchorwoman, and attorney |
| Title | Host of Uvda ("Fact"), on the Israeli Channel 2 |
| Spouse(s) | Harel |
| Children | 3 |
Ilana Dayan-Orbach (Hebrew: אילנה דיין; born 8 May 1964) is an Israeli investigative journalist, anchorwoman, and attorney. She is best known as host of the investigative television program Uvda ("Fact") on the Israeli Channel 2.
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. Her great-grandfather, 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 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.
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