Moshe Dayan
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Moshe Dayan 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.
Dayan as Chief of General Staff
Dayan (left) with Yitzhak Sadeh and Yigal Allon, Kibbutz Hanita, 1938
Moshe Dayan commanding a company of Jewish Supernumerary Police, Hanita, March 1938
1949 portrait by Ludwig Blum
Chief of the General Staff (Israel)
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The Chief of the General Staff, also known as the Commander-in-Chief of the Israel Defense Forces, is the professional head of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The current Chief of the General Staff is Herzi Halevi.
Chief of the General Staff (Israel)
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Image: Yigael Yadin, Chief of General Staff
Image: Mordechai Maklef 1952