Amnon Dankner (; February 5, 1946 – April 5, 2013) was an Israeli newspaper editor and author. He was the editor of the mass-circulation daily ''

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'' for six years.

Biography

Amnon Dankner was born in

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. His parents were the owners of Cafe Allenby. The family was secular, but he attended a religious school, Ma'aleh, where he was a classmate of Haim Be'er. He served in the

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corps and studied law at the

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. He was married to Miri, with whom he had two sons, Yoav and Itai. Although he preferred Jerusalem, at his wife's insistence he lived in

Ramat Hasharon Ramat HaSharon (, ) is an affluent city located on Israel's central coastal strip in the south of the Sharon, Israel, Sharon region, bordering the cities of Tel Aviv to the south, Hod HaSharon, Hod-HaSharon to the east, and Herzliya and kibbutz ...

.The Inner Dankner
/ref> On 5 April 2013, at the age of 67, he died in his home from

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. He is survived by his wife, two sons and five grandchildren.

Journalistic and literary career

In the 1970s, Dankner was the spokesman of the Israeli Ministry of Education and the

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. He was a reporter for ''

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'', the Washington correspondent for ''

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'', a columnist for '' Hadashot'' and the editor-in-chief of ''Maariv'' from 2002 to 2007. He was one of the hosts of the Israeli political talk show ''Popolitika''. In 1992, Dankner published a biography of Dahn Ben-Amotz that stirred up a major controversy.

Published works

*''Don't Shoot the President'' *''Berman, Why Do You Do That to Me'' *''The Summer of Rina Oster'' *''Sherman's Winter'' *''The Boneless'' *''Aunt Eva, His Nights and Days''

References

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