POLITICIAN

Moshe Dayan

1915 - 1981

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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 state of Israel. In the 1930s, Dayan joined the Haganah, the pre-state Jewish defense force of Mandatory Palestine. He served in the Special Night Squads under Orde Wingate during the Arab revolt in Palestine and later lost an eye to a sniper in a raid on Vichy forces in Lebanon during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moshe Dayan has received more than 5,415,221 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Moshe Dayan is the 294th most popular politician (up from 521st in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Israel (up from 33rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Israeli Politician.

Moshe Dayan was a major military leader in the Israeli army. He is most famous for his role in the 1967 Six-Day War, when he led the Israeli forces to victory over Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Moshe Dayan ranks 294 out of 19,576. Before him are Martin Bormann, Charles XII of Sweden, Sulla, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, Mars, and George III of the United Kingdom. After him are Charles I of Austria, Woodrow Wilson, Hugh Capet, Konstantin Chernenko, Philip III of Spain, and Peter III of Russia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Moshe Dayan ranks 4. Before him are Édith Piaf, Augusto Pinochet, and Anthony Quinn. After him are Frank Sinatra, Ingrid Bergman, Roland Barthes, Vasily Zaitsev, Yitzhak Shamir, David Rockefeller, Arthur Miller, and Orson Welles. Among people deceased in 1981, Moshe Dayan ranks 3. Before him are Bob Marley, and Anwar Sadat. After him are Jacques Lacan, Albert Speer, Soong Ching-ling, Max Euwe, Natalie Wood, Frederica of Hanover, Hideki Yukawa, William Holden, and William Wyler.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Moshe Dayan ranks 28 out of 466. Before him are Bartholomew the Apostle (-100), Thomas the Apostle (1), Ezekiel (-621), Salome (14), Jude the Apostle (15), and Simon the Zealot (1). After him are Ahmed Yassin (1937), Herod Antipas (-20), Bathsheba (-3500), Rehoboam (-972), John the Evangelist (10), and Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem (1160).

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Among POLITICIANS In Israel

Among politicians born in Israel, Moshe Dayan ranks 7. Before him are Mahmoud Abbas (1935), Ariel Sharon (1928), Yitzhak Rabin (1922), Herod the Great (-73), Benjamin Netanyahu (1949), and Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (1161). After him are Herod Antipas (-20), Rehoboam (-972), Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem (1160), Amin al-Husseini (1895), Jeroboam (-1000), and Ehud Barak (1942).

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