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y Moshe Dayan, (Hebrew: 20May 1915

16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. The fourth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953 1958), he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new State of Israel. He went on to become Defense Minister and later Foreign Minister of Israel.

y Moshe Dayan was born on Kibbutz Degania Alef near the shores

of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) in pre-Mandate Palestine. His parents were Shmuel and Devorah, Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. He was the second child to be born on the kibbutz (after Gideon Baratz). He was named Moshe after Moshe Barsky, the first member of the kibbutz to be killed in an Arab attack. Soon after, his parents moved to Nahalal, the first Moshav to be established. He attended the Agricultural School there. At the age of 14, he joined the newly formed Jewish militia known as the Haganah. In 1938 he joined the Palestine Supernumerary Police and became a motorized patrol ("MAN") commander.One of his military heroes was the British proZionist officer Orde Wingate, under whom he served in several Special Night Squads operations.

y In 1947, Dayan was appointed to the Haganah General Staff

working on Arab affairs, in particular recruiting agents to gain information about irregular Arab forces in Palestine. His brother, Zorik, was killed in fighting, 14 April 1948. On 22 April Dayan was appointed in charge of abandoned Arab property in newly conquered Haifa. To put a stop to the out-of-control looting he ordered that anything that could be used by the army be stored in Haganah warehouses and the rest be distributed amongst Jewish agricultural settlements. On 18 May, Dayan was given command of the Jordan Valley sector and in a nine hour battle his troops stopped the Syrian advance South of the Sea of Galilee.
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89th Battalion In June he became the first commander of the 89th Battalion, part of Sadeh's Armoured Brigade. His methods of recruiting volunteers from other army units such as the Golani and Kiryati Brigades provoked complaints from their commanders. On 20 June 1948, two men from one of his companys were killed in a confrontation with Irgun members trying to bring weapons ashore from the Altalena at Kfar Vitkin. During Operation Danny he led his Battalion in a brief raid through Lod in which nine of his men were killed. His Battalion was then transferred to the South where they captured Karatiya, close to Faluja, 15 July. His withdrawal of his troops after only 2 hours leaving a Givati Company to face an Egyptian counter attack led to Givati commander Shimon Avidan to demand that Dayan be disciplined for breach of discipline. Chief of Staff Yigal Yadin instructed the Military Attorney General to proceed but the case was dismissed.

y Jerusalem y On 23 July 1948, on Ben Gurion's insistence over General

Staff opposition, Dayan was appointed Military Commander of Jewish controlled areas of Jerusalem.In this post he launched two military offensives. Both were nighttime operations and both were failures. On 17 August he sent two companies to attempt to occupy the hillsides around Government House but they retreated suffering casualties. On the night of 20 October 1948, to coincide with the end of Operation Yoav further south, Operation Wine Press was launched. Its objective was to capture Bethlehem via Beit Jala. A force of six companies set out but were pinned down by machine-gun fire in the wadi below Beit Jala and were forced to withdraw.
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y Southern Command y in 25 October 1949 he was promoted to Major-General and

appointed commander of the Southern Command. Most of the staff officers resigned in protest at his replacement of the previous commander,Yigal Allon.The major problem in the south of the country was Palestinians crossing the border, "infiltrating", from the Gaza Strip, Sinai, and the Hebron hills. Dayan was an advocate of a "harsh" policy along the border. In Jerusalem he had given instructions that infiltrators killed in noman's-land or the Arab side of the border should be moved on to the Israeli side before UN inspections. Allon had already introduced a 7 kilometre "free-fire" zone along the southern borders. In the spring of 1950 Dayan authorized the Israeli airforce to strafe shepherds and their herds in the Beit Govrin area.
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Chief of Staff 1952 was a time of economic crisis for the new state. Faced with demands of a 20% cut in budget and the discharge of 6,000 members of the IDF Yigal Yadin resigned as Chief of Staff, November 1952, and was replaced by Mordechai Maklef. Dayan was promoted to Head of Operations (G) Branch, the second most senior post on the General Staff, December 1952. One of Dayans actions in this post was to commence work on the canal diverting water from the River Jordan, September 1953. y During 1953 Prime Minister and Minister of Defence David Ben Gurion began to make preparations for his retirement from his leadership roles. His choice for the post of Minister of Defence was Pinhas Lavon who became acting MoD in the autumn of 1953. Lavon and Maklef were unable to work together and Maklef resigned. Dayan was immediately appointed CoS, 7 December 1953. This appointment was Ben Gurion's last act as Prime Minister before his replacement by acting Prime Minister Moshe Sharett.
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On taking over command, based on Ben-Gurion's three year defence programme, Dayan carried out a major reorganisation of the Israeli army which, among others, included:Strengthened combat units at the expense of administrative 'tail'. Raising the Intelligence and Training Branches of the Israeli Army. Surrendering the activities of stores and procurement to the civilian Ministry of Defense. Revamping the mobilisation scheme and ensuring earmarking for adequate equipment. Starting a military academy for officers of the rank of major and above. Emphasised strike forces (Air Force, Armour) and on training of Commando battalions. Developed GADNA, a youth wing for military training.

y In 1959, a year after he retired from the IDF, Dayan

joined Mapai, the leftist party in Israeli politics, then led by David Ben-Gurion. Until 1964, he served as the Minister of Agriculture. Dayan joined with the group of Ben-Gurion loyalists who defected from Mapai in 1965 to form Rafi. The Prime Minister Levi Eshkol disliked Dayan; however, when tensions began to rise in early 1967, Eshkol appointed the charismatic and popular Dayan as Minister of Defense in order to raise public morale and bring Rafi into a unity government.

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Six Day War (1967) Moshe Dayan was covering the Vietnam War to observe modern warfare up close after his political life. In fact, he was on patrol as an observer with members of the US Marine Corps. Although Dayan did not take part in most of the planning before the Six-Day War of June 1967, his appointment as defense minister contributed to the Israeli success. He personally oversaw the capture of East Jerusalem during the 5 June-7 June fighting. During the years following the war, Dayan enjoyed enormous popularity in Israel and was widely viewed as a potential Prime Minister. At this time, Dayan was the leader of the hawkish camp within the Labor government, opposing a return to anything like Israel's pre-1967 borders. He once said that he preferredSharm-al-Sheikh (an Egyptian town on the southern edge of the Sinai Peninsula overlooking Israel's shipping lane to the Red Sea via the Gulf of Aqaba) without peace to peace without Sharm-al-Sheikh. He modified these views later in his career and played an important role in the eventual peace agreement between Israel and Egyp
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Yom Kippur War (1973) Moshe Dayan andMenachem Begin, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland After Golda Meir became Prime Minister in 1969 following the death of Levi Eshkol, Dayan remained Minister of Defense. He was still in that post when the Yom Kippur War began catastrophically for Israel on 6 October 1973. As the highest-ranking official responsible for military planning, Dayan may bear part of the responsibility for the Israeli leadership having missed the signs for the upcoming war. In the hours preceding the war, Dayan chose not to order a full mobilization or a preemptive strike against the Egyptians and the Syrians. He assumed that Israel would be able to win easily even if the Arabs attacked and, more importantly, did not want Israel to appear as the aggressor, as it would have undoubtedly cost it the invaluable support of the United States (who would later mount a massive airlift to rearm Israel, a major turning point of the war).

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y Foreign Minister y According to those who knew him, the war deeply depressed

Dayan. He went into political eclipse for a time. In 1977, despite having been re-elected to the Knesset for the Alignment, he accepted the offer to become Foreign Minister in the new Likud government led by Menachem Begin. He was expelled from the Alignment, as a result and sat as an independent MK. As foreign minister in Begin's government, he was instrumental in drawing up the Camp David Accords, a peace agreement with Egypt. Dayan resigned his post in October 1979, because of a disagreement with Begin over whether the Palestinian territories were an internal Israeli matter (the Camp David treaty included provisions for future negotiations with the Palestinians; Begin, who did not like the idea, did not put Dayan in charge of the negotiating team). In 1981 he founded a new party, Telem.
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y Telem won two seats in the 1981 elections, but Dayan died

shortly thereafter, in Tel Aviv, from a massive heart attack. He had been in ill-health since 1980, after he was diagnosed with colon cancer late that year. He is buried in Nahalal in the moshav (a collective village) where he was raised. Dayan willed his personal belongings to his bodyguard. In 2005, his eye patch was offered for sale on Ebay with a starting bid of $75,000 U.S. dollars. y Dayan was a complex character; his opinions were never strictly black and white. He had few close friends; his mental brilliance and charismatic manner were combined with cynicism and lack of restraint.
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y Dayan combined a kibbutznik's secular identity and

pragmatism with a deep love and appreciation for the Jewish people and the land of Israel --but not a religious identification. In one recollection, having seen rabbis flocking on the Temple Mount shortly after Jerusalem was captured in 1967, he asked,"What is this? Vatican?" Dayan later ordered the Israeli flag removed from the Dome of the Rock, and gave administrative control of the Temple Mount over to the Waqf, a Muslim council. Dayan believed that the Temple Mount was more important to Judaism as a historical rather than holy site.
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y Dayan was also an author and an amateur archaeologist,

the latter hobby leading to some controversy as his amassing of historical artifacts, often with the help of his soldiers, broke a number of laws. Dayan's habit of pilfering newly discovered archaeological sites, before arrival of the Antiquities Authority and State-authorized archaeologists, once almost cost him his life and left him with a slight permanent impairment. Shortly after the Six-Day War Dayan heard of a new archaeological find near Holon, due south of Tel Aviv. Not wanting to arouse suspicion, he entered the dig alone, and started to look for artifacts, when suddenly the entire dig caved in upon him, burying him alive. Only a hand remained visible.
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y Honest y Forward-Looking y Competent y Inspiring y Intelligent

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y Honesty as a Leadership Quality y People want to follow an honest leader. Years ago, many

employees started out by assuming that their leadership was honest simply because the authority of their position. With modern scandals, this is no longer true. y When you start a leadership position, you need to assume that people will think you are a little dishonest. In order to be seen as an honest individual, you will have to go out of your way to display honesty. People will not assume you are honest simply because you have never been caught lying. y One of the most frequent places where leaders miss an opportunity to display honesty is in handling mistakes. Much of a leader s job is to try new things and refine the ideas that don t work. However, many leaders want to avoid failure to the extent that they don t admit when something did not work.
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y Competency as a Leadership Quality y People want to follow someone who is competent. This doesn t

mean a leader needs to be the foremost expert on every area of the entire organization, but they need to be able to demonstrate competency. y For a leader to demonstrate that they are competent, it isn t enough to just avoid displaying incompetency. Some people will assume you are competent because of your leadership position, but most will have to see demonstrations before deciding that you are competent. y When people under your leadership look at some action you have taken and think, that just goes to show why he is the one in charge , you are demonstrating competency. If these moments are infrequent, it is likely that some demonstrations of competency will help boost your leadership influence.
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y Inspiration as a Leadership Trait y People want to be inspired. In fact, there is a whole

class of people who will follow an inspiring leader even when the leader has no other qualities. If you have developed the other traits in this article, being inspiring is usually just a matter of communicating clearly and with passion. Being inspiring means telling people how your organization is going to change the world.

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y Forward-Looking as a Leadership Trait y The whole point of leadership is figuring out where to go

from where you are now. While you may know where you want to go, people won t see that unless you actively communicate it with them. Remember, these traits aren t just things you need to have, they are things you need to actively display to those around you. y When people do not consider their leader forward-looking, that leader is usually suffering from one of two possible problems: y The leader doesn t have a forward-looking vision. y The leader is unwilling or scared to share the vision with others.
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y Intelligence as a Leadership Trait y Intelligence is something that can be difficult to develop.

The road toward becoming more intelligent is difficult, long and can t be completed without investing considerable time. Developing intelligence is a lifestyle choice. Your college graduation was the beginning of your education, not the end. In fact, much of what is taught in college functions merely as a foundational language for lifelong educational experiences. y To develop intelligence you need to commit to continual learning both formally and informally. With modern advances in distance, education it is easy to take a class or two each year from well respected professors in the evening at your computer.
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y Moshe Dayan was a great leader who led Israel to

become a country with pride. With out him the days of Israel would have perished to the ground but standing up for the country Dayan protected his motherland. y Bearing vast leadership qualities ,Dayan proved to be one of the most important leaders at that time and even today. y One could always take Moshe Dayan as a patriot who defended his motherland and a true son of land.

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