Moshe Dayan

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Moshe Dayan was a former Israeli military leader, minister of defense and minister of foreign affairs

May 20, 1915

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Personal Details

  • Birthday: May 20, 1915
  • Died on: October 16, 1981
  • Nationality: Israeli
  • Famous: Israeli Military, Political Leaders, Leaders, Political Leaders, Military Leaders
  • Spouses: Ruth Dayan
  • Childrens: Assi Dayan, Ehud Dayan, Yael Dayan
  • Birth Place: Degania Alef

Moshe Dayan born at

Degania Alef

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Birth Place

In 1935, he married Ruth Schwartz. After 36 years of marriage, his wife divorced him in 1971, due to many extra marital affairs. They have a daughter named Yael Dayan and two sons, Assi Dayan and Ehud Dayan.

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Personal Life

He remarried a woman named Rachel in 1973.

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Personal Life

From 1980, he suffered from health complication. The same year, he was also diagnosed with colon cancer.

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Personal Life

Moshe Dayan was born on Kibbutz Degania Alef near the shores of Lake Kinneret in Palestine, Ottoman Empire, on May 20, 1915 to the Jewish immigrant couple Shmuel and Devorah. The family later moved to Nahalal, a settlement in northern Israel.

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Childhood & Early Life

He was educated at the Agricultural School in Nahalal. By the time he was 14, he became a member of the ‘Haganah’, a Jewish army organisation of non-professional recruits.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 1938, he rose to the rank of a motorized patrol commander in the Palestine Supernumerary Police force. He also took part in several Special Night Squads operations.

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Career

In 1939, he worked as an instructor for various ‘Haganah’ leaders’ courses that were organised in Yavne'el. During this time the British Palestine Police Officers found many illegal rifles at the venue and asked for immediate evacuation.

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The Haganah leaders’ course attendees were arrested by the Transjordan Frontier Force while they were travelling via Wadi Bira, They were sentenced to ten years of imprisonment but were released in 1941.

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After release from jail, he was commissioned to work under the task force of an Australian-Palmach-Arab reconnaissance. This force was founded keeping in mind the Allied invasion of Syria and Lebano.

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His residence in kibbutz of Hanita was utilised as a forward base and the military unit often penetrated through the Vichy French Lebanon.

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In 2005, the eye patch of this Israeli military leader and politician was offered for sale on Ebay for a price of $75,000 U.S. dollars.

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