Moshe Dayan: Iconic Military Leader
Dayan was appointed defense minister in 1967, before the Six Day War, in order to ease the growing fear of annihilation.
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Moshe Dayan, with his iconic eye patch, became the face of Israel’s astonishing Six Day War.
The video comes with a 5-part educational guide (includes REVIEW, DISCUSSION, ACTIVITIES, REFLECTION, FURTHER LEARNING) that can be viewed online and/or downloaded as a PDF, along with a Kahoot game.
This is part of a series titled History of Israel Explained.
After leading Israel to victory in the 1956 Sinai Campaign, Dayan was appointed defense minister in 1967, ahead of the Six Day War, in order to assuage the public’s growing fear of annihilation. But what was Dayan’s role in the war itself? Why is he credited as the hero of the war, when Levi Eshkol was prime minister and Yitzhak Rabin was IDF chief-of-staff? What was his background and did his questionable private life dampen or heighten his heroic image?
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