Dani Dayan

Netanyahu, officials lay wreaths after siren marking Holocaust Remembrance Day

The wreaths in memory of Holocaust victims were hung on pedestals before a memorial torch. Netanyahu was the second to place his flowers, but stopped to steady and straighten the wreath.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials stand at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony.
Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan meets with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, March 23, 2026

Yad Vashem Chairman Dayan meets with Pope Leo XIV to discuss Holocaust remembrance

Argentina's President Javier Milei speaks at Yeshiva University in Manhattan, in New York City, US, March 9, 2026.

Argentina assumes presidency of IHRA, commits to fighting antisemitism

Actor Rodie Kozlovsky performs in a play incorporating the works of the late German artist and Holocaust survivor Leo Haas at Yad Vashem’s newly opened theater.

Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan: Holocaust memory is under sustained attack - opinion


Consul General Dayan: Nuclear deal is bad, but Iran complying is worse

He stressed that Iran is a foremost security threat and that the United States and Israel see "eye to eye" on the dangers of Iran and the deficiencies of the nuclear agreement.

Dani Dayan at the JPost Annual Conference 2017

Dani Dayan: The idea settlements are main obstacle to peace is ‘nonsense’

Dayan: “I am a person who, if I may for a second take the diplomatic hat off, fully identifies with the current government. I don’t have to act as if I do, I really do.”

Dani Dayan.

Israel reverses course again: Dayan is still choice for envoy to Brazil

Brasil came under heavy pressure from Palestinians, left-wing NGOs, and left wing Israelis to reject Dayan on grounds that to accept him as envoy would be seen as legitimizing the settlements.

Dani Dayan.

Hanegbi: Dayan won’t be ambassador to Brazil, so send him somewhere else

“This is an unprecedented decision,” Hanegbi said of Brazil’s behavior. “This isn’t a personal insult towards Dayan or the Israeli government, it’s about the interests of the State of Israel.”

Dani Dayan.

Netanyahu to Brazil: Settler leader the only ambassador we’ll offer

Earlier this week, a group of 40 retired Brazilian diplomats signed a statement against the appointment of Dayan, complaining that Israel had bypassed protocol.

Dani Dayan.

Evangelical Brazilian senator: BDS wins if country rejects proposed Israeli envoy

Brazilian senator and prominent Evangelical leader Marcelo Crivella adds that "Dani Dayan is a prepared diplomat selected legitimately by a friendly country."

Brazilian Senator Marcelo Crivella

Netanyahu meets Dayan as Brazil continues to drag feet on ambassador appointment

The meeting came five days after Dayan said in an interview that after three months waiting for the Brazilians to agree to the appointment , it was time to take a more aggressive stance.

Dani Dayan.

Is Israel headed for diplomatic brawl with Brazil over Dayan appointment?

Brazilian officials are known to be uncomfortable with Dayan due to his rightist political views, namely his stated opposition to Palestinian statehood.

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff attends a ceremony for regulating the Green Free Trade Zone in some cities of the Amazon, at Planalto Palace in Brasilia

Column one: Israel’s democratic crisis

The power to appoint is the power to govern. Without the power to appoint public servants, governments cannot develop patronage networks.

Former IDF Brig.-Gen. Gal Hirsch is seen leaving the Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday.

Edelstein, Herzog, Lapid all go to bat for Dani Dayan’s appointment to Brazil

Dayan, who lives in Samaria, is a former head of the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip.

Dani Dayan.