Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan | |
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משה דיין | |
 Dayan as Chief of the General Staff | |
| Ministerial career | |
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| 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] |
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| 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 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 was an Israeli Jewish soldier and politician. He was in the Haganah and lost an eye while fighting Nazis, so he got an eye patch. Dayan fought against the British Empire in the Haganah after the war so that the State of Israel could be created and he became a general in the Israeli army. Dayan led the Israelis against Egypt in the Suez War and got control of Sinai. Dayan later became a Socialist politician and joined David Ben-Gurion in Mapai. Levi Eshkol made Dayan Minister of Defence in the 1960s, so Dayan had that job during the Six Day War and he kept it after Eshkol died. After the Yom Kippur War, there were people in Israel who said it was Dayan’s fault for not knowing that Egypt would attack, so Dayan left the job. Later, Menachem Begin became Prime Minister and Begin made Dayan Minister of Foreign Affairs. Dayan also helped Begin when Begin made peace with Anwar Sadat in Egypt.
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- ↑ Friedländer, Saul (2016). Where Memory Leads: My Life. Other Press, LLC. p. 35. ISBN 978-1590518090. Search this book on
