{"id":6344,"date":"2013-04-08T06:19:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2013-04-08T06:19:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:19:12","slug":"former-maariv-edior-amnon-dankner-dies-at-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/former-maariv-edior-amnon-dankner-dies-at-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Maariv edior Amnon Dankner dies at 67"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) &#8212; Amnon Dankner, the former editor in chief of the daily Hebrew newspaper Maariv, has died. Dankner died last Friday in his Ramat Hasharon home after suffering a heart attack. He was 67.<\/p>\n<p>He led Maariv from 2002 to 2007. Dankner had started began working there in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his death, Dankner was writing a regular column for Sof Hashavua, a weekly Hebrew newspaper published by The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Dankner played a corrupt politician on the popular political satire television show &#8220;Polishuk.&#8221; He also appeared on current events television programs such as &#8220;Popolitika.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Jerusalem native worked as a journalist for several Hebrew-language newspapers. He was a reporter for Haaretz; served as the Washington correspondent for the Histadrut Labor newspaper Davar, which closed in 1996; and was a columnist for the also now-defunct Hadashot.<\/p>\n<p>He was the author of 12 books, fiction and non-fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Dankner received a law degree from the Hebrew University.\u00a0 In the 1970s, he served as the spokesman of the Education Ministry and later for the Jewish Agency.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Former%20Maariv%20edior%20Amnon%20Dankner%20dies%20at%2067\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,19],"tags":[2445,2446,8790,8795,650,8788,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6346,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions\/6346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}