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Moshe Dayan (Hebrew: משה דיין ; May 20, 1915 – October 16, 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 ...
Dayan was the Secretary-General of the Tehiya political party, and was a candidate to the Knesset on its list in the Israeli legislative elections in 1988 and 1992.. Dayan was a member on the executive committee of the Yesha Council for eight years, before being elected as chairman on July 13, 2007. [6]
Dayan (דיין ) is a Hebrew surname. It means a Jewish religious judge in a Beth din—a position conferring social prestige in a traditional Jewish community, and therefore one whose memory is likely to be retained as a family's surname even after the passage of many generations.
Weizman was a nephew of Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann. [citation needed] He grew up in Acre and Haifa, and attended the Hebrew Reali School. [1] He married Reuma Schwartz, sister of Ruth Dayan, wife of Moshe Dayan, and they had two children, Shaul and Michal. [citation needed] Weizman was a combat pilot.
Ilana Dayan-Orbach (Hebrew: אילנה דיין-אורבך; born 8 May 1964) is an Israeli investigative journalist, anchorwoman, and attorney. She is best known as host of the investigative television program Uvda ("Fact") on the Israeli Channel 12 .
Haim Dayan (Hebrew: חיים דיין, born 24 March 1960) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Tzomet between 1992 and 1999. Biography [ edit ]
Uzi Dayan is a nephew of Moshe Dayan, grandson of Shmuel Dayan and cousin of Assi Dayan, Yael Dayan and Yehonatan Geffen. His father, Zorik, was killed in the Battle of Ramat Yohanan in April of the year he was born. [1] His mother Mimi remarried in March 1950 after having met Moshe Rabinovitch in Rome the previous summer.
The Jewish banking family Louis Cahen d'Anvers claimed descent from the Davidic Line [41] Rabbi Yosef Dayan, who is a modern-day claimant to the Davidic throne in Israel and the founder of the Monarchist party Malchut Israel, descends from the Dayan family of Aleppo, who paternally descend from Hasan ben Zakkai, the younger brother of the ...