Yael Dayan

Yael Dayan, author, journalist and politician, was born in Nahalal, Israel’s first moshav (smallholders’ collective) in 1939, the daughter of Moshe Dayan and his wife Ruth. She studied international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and biology at the Open University. Yael Dayan was a Labor MK in the Knesset from 1992 until 2003; deputy mayor of Tel Aviv, and chair of the Tel Aviv city council. She is known for her activism for Israel-Palestinian peace, for minority, women’s and gay rights. For these, she was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Human Rights Award (1991) and the Olaf Palme Award for Peace (1998). Dayan was also listed by the French weekly, L’Express, as one of “The 100 Women Who Make the World Move” (1995), and was honored by the State of the World Forum as one of the “Women Redefining Leadership” (1997). Most recently, she received the Ducci Foundation Peace Award (Italy, 2015). 
Dayan began writing for the press at age 16, and her first novel, New Face in the Mirror – written in English and published when she was 20 – won her international recognition. She has published nine books, including novels and non-fiction. Her previous book, My Father, His Daughter, was a great international success. Her books have appeared in 15 languages.


Books Published in English
New Face in the Mirror (novel), Cleveland & New York, The World Pub. Co., 1959; London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1959; Jerusalem, Steimatzky, 1959; pback: New York, New American Library/ Signet, 1960; pback: London, Ace Books, 1961; braille: London, Royal National Institute for the Blind, 1962; New York, Kessinger Pub., 2007; Whitefish, Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013; New York, Open Road Media, 2015
Envy the Frightened (novel), Cleveland, The World Pub. Co., 1960; London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1961; pback: New York, Dell Pub., 1962
Dust (novel), Cleveland, The World Pub. Co., 1963; London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963; pback: New York, Award Books, 1964
Death Had Two Sons (novel), New York, McGraw-Hill, 1967; London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967; pback: New York, Dell Pub., 1968; pback: London, Panther, 1969; New York, Open Road Media, 2015
Israel Journal, June, 1967 [A Soldier's Diary: Sinai 1967] (war diary), New York, McGraw-Hill, 1967; London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967; Jerusalem, Steimatzky, 1967; pback: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1969; New York, Open Road Media, 2015
Three Weeks in October (novel), New York, Delacorte Press/Eleanor Friede, 1979; London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979; pback: New York, Dell Pub., 1980; pback: London : Futura Pub., 1980; New York, Open Road Media, 2015
My Father, His Daughter (autobiography/ Biography), New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985; London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985; pback: Jerusalem, Steimatzky, 1985; New York, Open Road Media, 2015