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Moshe Dayan

Israeli military leader and politician (1915–1981)

  • Fame63.3
  • Momentum2.7
  • Israel rank#153
Source-basedFalling
  • Fame63.3
  • Momentum2.7
  • Israel rank#153
  • Wikipedia57.5K
Lived 1915–1981, aged 66Israel
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  • Wikipedia
    63 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Rank in Israel
    #153
    Politicians
  • Era
    1915–1981
    Aged 66
  • Known for
    The Spy Who Fell to Ea…
    2019
Summary
Updated 2026-06-21

The black eye patch made him the face of Israeli military might in the wars that defined the country's first decades — a battlefield commander turned politician whose image became inseparable from the idea of Israel itself.

Biography

About

Dayan joined the Haganah in the 1930s and served under Orde Wingate during the Arab revolt, losing an eye to a Vichy sniper in Lebanon during World War II. He commanded the Jerusalem front in 1948, then served as Chief of Staff through the 1956 Sinai War. Appointed Defense Minister just before June 1967, he led Israel through the Six-Day War at the height of his influence. The Yom Kippur War six years later ended differently: blamed for unpreparedness, he resigned with Golda Meir's government in 1974. He broke with Labor in 1977 to serve as Menachem Begin's Foreign Minister, helping negotiate…

Voice

In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Moshe Dayan

Moshe Dayan
said
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
— As quoted in Newsweek (17 October 1977)
Moshe Dayan
said
In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.
— On Israeli settlements on the Golan Heights and in Hebron, in a private conversation in 1976 with Rami Tal, as quoted in Associated Press
Moshe Dayan
said
There is no more Palestine. Finished . . .
— As quoted in TIME Magazine (30 July 1973)
Moshe Dayan
said
We came to this country which was already populated by Arabs, and we are establishing a Hebrew, that is a Jewish state here.
— From an address given to Technion University students (19 March 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (4 April 1969), quoted
Moshe Dayan
said
The Israeli army is called a "defense force" but it is not a defensive army. . . .
— April 1967. This quote is the epigraph to The Israeli Military and the Origins of the 1967 War by Ami Gluska (Routledge, 2007), ISBN:
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Fame
Falling
63.3
Composite of search demand, mentions, audience & graph footprint.
Score components
Momentum2.7
Historical26.1
Now attention12.6
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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#153
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  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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    wikidata · wikidata.org
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    database · pantheon.world
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