Military Leader, General Moshe Dayan of Israel, in Vietnam
October 16 1981 - Tel Aviv, Israel; MOSHE DAYAN (Kitaigorodsky) (May 20 1915 - October 16 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. He was the second child born on the first kibbutz, but he moved with his family in 1921, and he grew up on a moshav. As commander of the Jerusalem front in Israel's War of Independence, Chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces (1953-58) during the 1956 Suez Crisis, but mainly as Defence Minister during the Six-Day War, he became to the world a fighting symbol of the new state of Israel. After being blamed by some for the army's lack of preparation before the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, he left the military and joined politics. As Foreign Minister Dayan played an important part in negotiating the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Diagnosed with colon cancer 1980, he died of a massive heart attack in 1981, age 66. PICTURED: Jun 3, 1967 - Vietnam - General MOSHE DAYAN sits down to a snack while on patrol in Vietnam. (Credit Image: (c) KEYSTONE Pictures/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans)
