Amnon Dankner (Hebrew: אמנון דנקנר; February 5, 1946 – April 5, 2013) was an Israeli newspaper editor and author.

The family was secular, but he attended a religious school, Ma'aleh, where he was a classmate of Haim Be'er.

He served in the Nahal corps and studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He was a reporter for Haaretz, the Washington correspondent for Davar, a columnist for Hadashot and the editor-in-chief of Maariv from 2002 to 2007.

[4] In 1992, Dankner published a biography of Dahn Ben-Amotz that stirred up a major controversy.