Assaf Dayan

One of the passengers on the El Al plane was the 24-year-old actor Assaf (Assi) Dayan, the son of the then Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan. Like Hanna Maron, the actor was on his way to London for a film casting. When the situation in the transit hall escalated, he found himself in the immediate vicinity of the pilot Uriel Cohen and the assassins. Assaf Dayan was able to escape outside and remained physically unharmed. Due to his father’s prominent position, investigators initially assumed that the attack was actually aimed at him. However, he had booked the flight at very short notice; during police interrogations, the perpetrators also denied having known about Assaf Dayan’s presence on the flight. Assaf Dayan is not known to have made any public statements about the attack or his personal situation.

In addition to his career as an actor, Assaf Dayan worked increasingly as a producer, director and screenwriter from the 1970s onwards – for example for the Israeli feature film “Life According to Agfa – Night Shots”, which received an honourable mention at the 1993 Berlinale. He was a formative figure in the Israeli film industry and a member of the Berlinale jury in 1999.