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Amnon Dankner

Amnon Dankner was an Israeli journalist and author who edited the daily Maariv from 2002 to 2007.

1946 to 2013Editing MaarivBiography of Dahn Ben-AmotzHosting Popolitika

Born: 5 February 1946, Jerusalem
Died: 5 April 2013, Ramat HaSharon
Occupation: journalist, writer, biographer, opinion journalist
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Amnon Dankner was born in 1946 in Jerusalem

Amnon Dankner was born in Jerusalem in 1946. His parents owned Cafe Allenby in central Jerusalem, and he worked there as a boy during school breaks. He attended the religious school Ma'aleh in Jerusalem.

He did his military service and later studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the Yom Kippur War he fought with an armored battalion on the Golan Heights.

From 1971 to 1974 he was spokesman of the Ministry of Education, and later briefly of the Jewish Agency. In 1976 he joined Haaretz as a reporter, then worked for Davar in Washington, wrote for Hadashot, and moved to Maariv. He edited Maariv from 2002 to 2007 and was a host of the talk show Popolitika.

His 1983 article in Haaretz caused a public storm. In 1992 he published a biography of Dahn Ben-Amotz that stirred controversy. He also wrote novels, including Sherman's Winter.

He was married to Miri and had two sons. He died at his home of cardiac arrest in 2013.