Moshe Dayan | |
|---|---|
משה דיין | |
 Dayan as Chief of the General Staff | |
| Ministerial career | |
| 1959–1964 | Minister of Agriculture |
| 1967–1974 | Minister of Defense |
| 1977–1979 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Faction represented in the Knesset | |
| 1959–1965 | Mapai |
| 1965–1968 | Rafi |
| 1968–1969 | Labor |
| 1969–1977 | Alignment |
| 1977–1981 | Independent |
| 1981 | Telem |
| Military roles | |
| 1953–1958 | Chief of the General Staff |
| 1952 | GOC Northern Command |
| 1949–1951 | Head of Southern Command |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 20, 1915 Degania Alef, Beirut Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Israel) |
| Died | October 16, 1981 (aged 66) Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Resting place | Nahalal Cemetery |
| Awards | Legion of Honour[1] |
| Signature |  |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom (World War II) Israel (from 1948) |
| Branch/service |  Haganah (c. 1929–48) British Army (World War II) Israel Defense Forces (1948–1959) |
| Rank |  Rav Aluf (Chief of Staff; highest rank) |
| Commands | Chief of the General staff Southern Command Northern Command |
| Battles/wars | Arab Revolt in Palestine World War II 1948 Arab–Israeli War Suez Crisis Six-Day War War of Attrition Yom Kippur War |
Moshe Dayan (Hebrew: משה דיין; May 20, 1915 – October 16, 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) during the 1956 Sinai War, and as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became a worldwide fighting symbol of the new state of Israel.[2]
In the 1930s, Dayan joined the Haganah, the pre-state Jewish defense force of Mandatory Palestine. He served in the Special Night Squads under Orde Wingate during the Arab revolt in Palestine and later lost an eye to a sniper in a raid on Vichy forces in Lebanon during World War II. Dayan was close to David Ben-Gurion and joined him in leaving the Mapai party and setting up the Rafi party in 1965 with Shimon Peres. Dayan became Defence Minister just before the 1967 Six-Day War. After the Yom Kippur War of 1973, during which Dayan served as Defense Minister, he was blamed for the lack of preparedness; after some time he resigned. In 1977, following the election of Menachem Begin as Prime Minister, Dayan was expelled from the Israeli Labor Party because he joined the Likud-led government as Foreign Minister, playing an important part in negotiating the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.
- ^ Friedländer, Saul (2016). Where Memory Leads: My Life. Other Press, LLC. p. 35. ISBN 978-1590518090.
- ^ Willard Crompton, Samuel (2007). Ariel Sharon. Infobase Publishing. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-7910-9263-7.