{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}} {{short description|Israeli journalist (born 1940)}}
{{Infobox presenter | name = Dan Shilon | image = Dan Shilon Portret.jpg | image_upright = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1940|10|24}} | birth_place = Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = {{hlist|Television host|director|producer}} | show = ''Dan Shilon Live'' | station = Channel 2 | network = | timeslot = Late night | show2 = | station2 = | network2 = | timeslot2 = | style = Talk show | country = Israel | prevshow = | parents = | spouse(s) = {{marriage|Miri Shilon|2005|reason=divorced|2012}} | partner = | children = Adi Shilon, Dafna Shilon | website = |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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
==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''.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="jpost1">{{cite news|last=Bar |first=Michael |url=https://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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="jpost1"/>
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."<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
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''.<ref name="google1">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/betweensodomeden00walz/page/151 <!-- quote="dan shilon". --> ''Between Sodom and Eden: a gay journey through today's changing Israel''], Lee Walzer (2000)</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="jpost1"/> It was the Israeli equivalent of ''The Phil Donahue Show''.<ref>{{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}}</ref> The show features both liberal and conservative Israeli public figures as guests, and dealt with controversial topics.<ref name="google1"/>
In 1998, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spokesman accused him of "crossing the lines" of appropriate journalistic behavior, and taking a stand against Netanyahu.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
==See also== *Television in Israel *Media of Israel
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