October 16, 1981(1981-10-16) (aged 66) Tel Aviv, Israel
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 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 Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) during the 1956 Suez Crisis, and especially 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.
MosheDayan (Hebrew: משה דיין; May 20, 1915 – October 16, 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in...
and defense minister MosheDayan and peace activist Ruth Dayan (née Schwartz). He had two siblings: politician and author Yael Dayan, born 1939, and sculptor...
wife of Israeli Foreign Minister and General, MosheDayan (1915–1981). Active in many social causes, Dayan was a recipient of the Israeli President's Medal...
daughter of MosheDayan and sister of Assi Dayan and Udi Dayan. Dayan was born in Nahalal during the British Mandate, the daughter of MosheDayan and Ruth...
The MosheDayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies is an Israeli think tank based in Tel Aviv, Israel, focused on the contemporary study and...
Israeli leaders like David Ben-Gurion, Shimon Peres, Levi Eshkol and MosheDayan coined the phrase in the mid-1960s. They named it after the biblical...
killed. Following his death, Barsky quickly became a Zionist symbol. MosheDayan, a well-known Israeli politician and notable public figure who was named...
Reminiscences". Arab Studies Quarterly. 3 (2): 123–51. JSTOR 41854900. Dayan, Moshe (1976). MosheDayan: story of my life. New York: William Morrow and Company. ISBN 0-688-03076-9...
Moshe Sharett (Hebrew: משה שרת; born Moshe Chertok (משה שרתוק); 15 October 1894 – 7 July 1965) was an Israeli politician who served as the second prime...
killed by infiltrators from Gaza. Rutenberg's funeral was attended by MosheDayan, then Chief of Staff, who gave a widely acclaimed eulogy which called...
Minister of Transportation. On 28 September 1956 he flew to Paris with MosheDayan, Shimon Peres and Golda Meir where they had meetings with French Foreign...
Moshe (1976) MosheDayan. Story of my Life, William Morrow. ISBN 0-688-03076-9. p. 132. MosheDayan. Story of my Life, p. 133. MosheDayan. Story of my...
contributed to the tension between Prime Minister Moshe Sharett, who often opposed Sharon's raids, and MosheDayan, who had become increasingly ambivalent in...
Portfolio. Rafi also joined the unity government at that time, with MosheDayan becoming Defense Minister. Gahal's arrangement lasted until August 1970...
Rishon LeZion MosheDayan railway station is an Israel Railways station in Rishon LeZion. The station is located adjacent to the MosheDayan Interchange...
the Israeli reserves. Prime Minister Golda Meir, Minister of Defense MosheDayan and Chief of General Staff David Elazar met at 8:05 am on the morning...
Moshe Dayan Shmuel Dayan (1891–1968), activist and politician; father of MosheDayan Yael Dayan (born 1939), MK and daughter of MosheDayan Pnina Gary (born...
Ben-Gurion Street in Ramat Gan, then Yitzhak Rabin Street in Givataim, then MosheDayan Street in Tel Aviv, Mikveh Israel, it would end in Holon after crossing...
Global Information
United Kingdom (World War II)
Israel (from 1948)
Haganah (c. 1929–48)
British Army (World War II)
Israel Defense Forces (1948–1959)
Rav Aluf (Chief of Staff; highest rank)