Ilana Dayan-Orbach (Hebrew: אילנה דיין-אורבך; born 8 May 1964) is an Israeli investigative journalist, anchorwoman, and attorney.

Dayan was born in Argentina in 1964 and immigrated to Israel with her family at age six in 1970, and settled in the Yad Eliyahu neighborhood in Tel Aviv.

Near the end of her regular service she began presenting the morning program with Yitzhak Ben Ner, and later with Micha Friedman [he].

[3][4] In 2005, Uvda broadcast a documentary on the killing of 13-year-old Iman Darweesh Al Hams by IDF troops in the Gaza Strip.

The Supreme Court stated that the documentary programme did cause damage to captain R., but that Dayan was protected by the Substantial truth doctrine.

The justices dismissed the demand by the plaintiff for an apology, but they charged NIS 100,000 of compensation to be paid by Telad, the TV production company for Channel 2, in lieu of the programme trailers, which were found to be libel.

according to Justice Vardi Zeiler, "if not for Ilana Dayan and her television program, this case wouldn't have been revived and no one would have known what happened.

[11] In March 2007, Uvda was accused of portraying the suspended President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, as fraternizing with criminals and systematically sexually assaulting female employees and then intimidating them into silence on the eve of his hearing with Attorney General Menachem Mazuz by Katsav's attorneys, who said they would file a slander suit against Dayan.