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Israeli writer and civil rights activist.

Yael (also Yaʿel) Dayan was born in Afula to Moshe Dayan, who later became chief of staff of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) and defense and foreign minister, and Rahel (also Rachel) Dayan, a well-known social activist specializing in immigrant absorption. Yael studied international relations at the Hebrew University and biology at the Open University. She served as an officer in the IDF Spokesman Unit and covered the June War of 1967 in that capacity. There she met her husband, General Dov Sion (1924 - 2003). In the 1980s, already a well-established author and commentator on public issues, she entered politics and was elected to the Knesset in 1992 as a Labor Party member. Her three terms in the Knesset were marked by intensive and outspoken attempts to promote the rights of minority groups, chief among them Israeli Arabs, gays, and lesbians. She was also active in Arab-Israeli peace causes and was involved in various efforts to intensify rapprochement between the two peoples after the signing of the September 1993 Oslo Accord. In the 2003 elections she was not included on the Labor party list and joined the Meretz Party list of candidates but was not reelected.

A prolific writer, she has written several novels and memoirs, some of which have been translated into English, including New Face in the Mirror, 1959, Death Has Two Sons, 1967, Dust, 1963, and Envy the Frightened, 1960 (fiction); and A Soldier's Diary: Sinai 1967, 1968, Three Weeks in October, 1979, and My Father, His Daughter, 1983 (nonfiction), as well as many articles and film scripts dealing with women's issues, peace, and social criticism.

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Yael Dayan
Date of birth 2 December 1939 (1939--) (age 67)
Place of birth Nahalal, Mandate Palestine
Knesset(s) 13th, 14th, 15th
Party Meretz-Yachad
Former parties Labour, One Israel

Yael Dayan (Hebrew: יעל דיין‎, born 2 December 1939) is an Israeli writer and political figure.

Career

The daughter of Moshe Dayan and granddaughter of Shmuel Dayan, both politicians in Israel's early years of statehood, Yael was born in Nahalal. After her national service in the Israel Defense Forces in which she served as a Lieutenant in the IDF Spokesman's Office, Dayan studied International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as Biology though the Open University of Israel. She later married Dov Sion (now deceased) and had two children.

She first made a name for herself as an author and newspaper columnist. She has published five novels as well as a memoir of the Six-Day War called Israel Journal: June 1967 and a biography of her father called My Father, His Daughter.

Dayan became an peace activist, joining the leadership of Peace Now, and was also involved in Bat Shalom, the International Center for Peace and the Council for Peace and Security, giving lectures around the world on the topics of peace and security.

In Israel she has also been involved in Human, Womens and LGBT rights.

In 1992, Dayan was elected to the Knesset on the Labour list and served as chairwoman of the Committee on the Status of Women. She was instrumental in pushing forward Israel's sexual harassment law in the 1990s.

Re-elected in 1996 and 1999 (as a member of One Israel, an alliance of Labour, Meimad and Gesher), Dayan became chairwoman of the Committee on the Status of Women for a second time in 1999.

She lost her seat in the 2003 elections, and left Labour to join Meretz with Yossi Beilin. Dayan headed the Meretz list in the Tel Aviv municipal elections in 2004, with the party winning 5 out of 31 Seats on council and joining Ron Huldai's coalition. Dayan is Deputy Mayor and responsible for social services.

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Fiction

  • New Face In The Mirror - 1959
  • Envy The Frightened - 1961
  • Dust - 1963
  • Death Had Two Sons - 1967
  • Three Weeks In The Fall - 1979

Non-fiction

  • The Promised Land: Memoirs of Shmuel Dayan (editor) - 1961
  • (also known as A Soldier's Diary) - 1967
  • My Father, His Daughter - 1985

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