Dan Shilon
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{{short description|Israeli journalist (born 1940)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1940|10|24}}
| birth_place = Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
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| show = Dan Shilon Live
| station = Channel 2
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| timeslot = Late night
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| style = Talk show
| country = Israel
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| spouse(s) = {{marriage|Miri Shilon|2005|reason=divorced|2012}}
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| children = Adi Shilon, Dafna Shilon
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|native_name=דן שילון|native_name_lang=he}}
Dan Shilon ({{langx|he|דן שילון}}; born 24 October 1940) is an Israeli television host, director, and producer.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/israeliculturebe0000pele |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/israeliculturebe0000pele/page/45 45] |quote=dan shilon. |title=Israeli culture between the two Intifadas: a brief romance |publisher=University of Texas Press |date=2008 |author=Yaron Peleg |isbn=9780292794269 |access-date=27 July 2011}}
Career
Dan Shilon began his career in the 1960s with Israel Radio, was a correspondent of Kol Israel (Voice of Israel), and was a journalist for Yediot Ahronoth.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XnRmCs2IKaEC&q=%22dan+shilon%22&pg=PA57 |title=And the sea is never full: memoirs, 1969–
|date=2000 |author=Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing
|isbn=9780307764096
|access-date=27 July 2011}}{{cite news|last=Bar |first=Michael |url=http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=15112 |title=Celebrity Grapevine |work=The Jerusalem Post |date= 5 March 2006|access-date=27 July 2011}} He also was the General Manager of the Israeli television company Reshet (רשת), a franchisee of Channel 2 on Israeli television, until he resigned in 1988.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PuPGsI6JR2UC&q=%22dan+shilon%22&pg=PA322 |title=Telepopulism: media and politics in Israel|date=2004|author= Yoram Peri|publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=9780804750028|access-date=27 July 2011}}
In 1988, after political opponents Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres debated each other, leftist Mapam politician Meir Pa'il, opined: "Neither is qualified to lead Israel. [Shamir] is complete square and [Peres] is a shifty mediocrity. [Dan Shilon] is more intelligent than both of them, and Shilon is no Rambam."{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/98467757.html?dids=98467757:98467757&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+24%2C+1988&author=By+DAN+PETREANU+and+ANDY+GOLDBERG&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Smaller+parties+label+debate+%27a+total+waste%27&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121203035101/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/98467757.html?dids=98467757:98467757&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+24,+1988&author=By+DAN+PETREANU+and+ANDY+GOLDBERG&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Smaller+parties+label+debate+'a+total+waste'&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 December 2012 |title=Smaller parties label debate 'a total waste' |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=24 October 1988 |author=Dan Petreanu and Andy Goldberg |access-date=27 July 2011 }}
Shilon hosted an Israeli late-night television talk show about political and social issues on Channel 2 on Israeli TV, which was very popular in the early 1990s, known as The Dan Shilon Show or Dan Shilon Live.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0TOxDQ7IL6MC&q=%22dan+shilon%22&pg=PA221 |title=Words and stones: the politics of language and identity in Israel |date=2004 |author=Daniel Lefkowitz |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-802843-7 |access-date=27 July 2011}}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/rabinourlifehisl00rabi |url-access=registration |quote=dan shilon. |title=Rabin: our life, his legacy |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |date=1997 |author=Lea Rabin |isbn=9780399142178 |access-date=27 July 2011}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WRM6WUof9AsC&q=%22dan+shilon%22&pg=PA112 |title=Television talk shows: discourse, performance, spectacle |author=Andrew Tolson |date=2001 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781410600950 |access-date=27 July 2011}}[https://archive.org/details/betweensodomeden00walz/page/151 Between Sodom and Eden: a gay journey through today's changing Israel], Lee Walzer (2000){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RJHFK7wQUckC&q=%22dan+shilon%22&pg=PA115 |title=The great immigration: Russian Jews in Israel |date=1998 |author=Dina Siegel |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=9781571819680 |access-date=27 July 2011}} It was the Israeli equivalent of The Phil Donahue Show.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/14/sports/olympics-israeli-medalist-finds-fame-overpowering.html |title=OLYMPICS; Israeli Medalist Finds Fame Overpowering |work=The New York Times |date=14 May 1993 |author=Filip Bondy |access-date=27 July 2011}} The show features both liberal and conservative Israeli public figures as guests, and dealt with controversial topics.
In 1998, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesman accused him of "crossing the lines" of appropriate journalistic behavior, and taking a stand against Netanyahu.{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/33757662.html?dids=33757662:33757662&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Sep+08%2C+1998&author=MICHAL+YUDELMAN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Shilon%2C+Bushinsky+exchange+barbs&pqatl=google |title=Shilon, Bushinsky exchange barbs |work=The Jerusalem Post |author=Michael Yudelman |date=8 September 1998 |access-date=27 July 2011 |archive-date=7 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107131918/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/33757662.html?dids=33757662:33757662&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Sep+08,+1998&author=MICHAL+YUDELMAN&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Shilon,+Bushinsky+exchange+barbs&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}
See also
References
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