Moshe Dayan

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Born: May 20, 1915
Died: October 16, 1981 (aged 66)
Place of birth: Degania Alef, Ottoman Empire [now Israel]

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Biography

Moshe Dayan (20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981) 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.