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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 Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) during the 1956 Suez Crisis, and especially 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 4,994,815 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia. Moshe Dayan is the 522nd most popular politician (down from 487th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Israel (up from 42nd 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 522 out of 15,577. Before him are Georgy Malenkov, Gaiseric, Olav V of Norway, Leopold III of Belgium, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Philip V of France. After him are Æthelstan, Charles the Fat, William IV of the United Kingdom, Lavrentiy Beria, Frederick I of Prussia, and Louis the German.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Moshe Dayan ranks 8. Before him are Augusto Pinochet, Frank Sinatra, Anthony Quinn, Ingrid Bergman, Roland Barthes, and Vasily Zaitsev. After him are David Rockefeller, Orson Welles, Paul Samuelson, Eli Wallach, Billie Holiday, and Arthur Miller. Among people deceased in 1981, Moshe Dayan ranks 5. Before him are Bob Marley, Anwar Sadat, Jacques Lacan, and Albert Speer. After him are Eugenio Montale, Natalie Wood, William Wyler, Max Euwe, Soong Ching-ling, Frederica of Hanover, and Hans Adolf Krebs.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Moshe Dayan ranks 35 out of 430. Before him are Yitzhak Rabin (1922), Herod Antipas (-20), Bathsheba (-3500), Goliath (-1060), Eusebius (265), and John the Evangelist (10). After him are Rehoboam (-972), Mahmoud Abbas (1935), Joachim (-100), Joseph of Arimathea (100), Benjamin Netanyahu (1949), 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 Herod the Great (-73), Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (1161), Ariel Sharon (1928), Yitzhak Rabin (1922), Herod Antipas (-20), and Goliath (-1060). After him are Rehoboam (-972), Mahmoud Abbas (1935), Benjamin Netanyahu (1949), Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem (1160), Hezekiah (-800), and Jeroboam (-1000).

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