Historical Figure
Moshe Dayan
1915–1981
Israeli military leader and politician (1915–1981)
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Key Dates
Birth
1915 May 20, 1915 →Biography
Moshe Dayan 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.
Timeline
Israeli general and politician, 5th Minister of Foreign Affairs for Israel) (d. 1981)
May 20 →Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
October 21 →More from the Early 20th Century
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