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 the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces during the 1956 Sin
Dayan as Chief of the General Staff
Moshe Dayan with his parents, 1918.
Dayan (left) with Yitzhak Sadeh and Yigal Allon, Kibbutz Hanita, 1938
Moshe Dayan commanding a company of Jewish Supernumerary Police, Hanita, March 1938
Yom Kippur War
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The Yom Kippur War, also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, the fourth Arab–Israeli War, the October War, or the Ramadan War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and
Moshe Dayan
…Mapai party and setting up the Rafi party in 1965 with Shimon Peres. Dayan became Defense Minister just before the 1967 Six-Day War. During and after Yom Kippur War of late 1973, during which Dayan served as Defense Minister, he was blamed for the lack of preparedness, and he resigned along with the rest of Golda…
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
Upon learning of the impending attack, Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir made the controversial decision not to launch a pre-emptive strike.
Wreckage from an Egyptian Sukhoi Su-7 shot down over the Sinai on 6 October, Israeli Air Force Museum
Egyptian forces crossing the Suez Canal