Assi Dayan
Assi Dayan (1945–2014) was an Israeli film director, actor, and screenwriter whose work spans some of the most acclaimed and irreverent films in Israeli cinema. The youngest son of general and defence minister Moshe Dayan and the peace activist Ruth Dayan, he became a national icon as an actor in his early twenties with He Walked Through the Fields (1967). After studying philosophy and English literature at Hebrew University he moved decisively into directing, with films that often confronted the malaise and contradictions of contemporary Israeli life. His Life According to Agfa (1992), a long night inside a Tel Aviv pub used as a microcosm of Israeli society, was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and sold roughly 350,000 tickets at home. He went on to direct the Mr. Baum trilogy and a long string of films and television series until his death in 2014.