Ilana Dayan

Ilana Dayan was born in 1964 in Argentina

Dayan was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1964. In 1970 she immigrated to Israel with her family, and they settled in the Yad Eliyahu neighborhood of Tel Aviv. Her family is related to the family of Moshe Dayan.

She served in the IDF at Israel Army Radio, where she was the first woman to work as a correspondent during compulsory service. In 1987 she began presenting the program Erev Hadash on Israeli Educational Television.

She studied law at Tel Aviv University and finished her degree in 1990. She then went to Yale University, where she earned a J.S.D. degree and wrote a column for Yedioth Ahronoth. She later taught constitutional law at Tel Aviv University.

In 1993 she began hosting Uvda on Channel 2 for Telad. She left the program in 2001 and returned in 2002. In 2005 Uvda moved to Keshet, and she also presents a weekly radio program on Israel Army Radio.

A 2005 Uvda report led to a libel suit by an officer known as Captain R. The District Court ruled against her, but the Supreme Court reversed the ruling, and in 2014 an extended panel upheld that decision. She is married to Harel Orbach and has 3 children.