All interviews were conducted by the author in Hebrew. Archival material and quotations from newspapers are in Hebrew unless otherwise indicated. All translations from the Hebrew are the author’s unless otherwise indicated.
1. The description is based on the memoirs of Shmuel Dayan in his On the Banks of the Jordan and the Sea of Galilee (Al Gdot Yarden ve-Kinneret) (Tel Aviv, n.d.), pp. 172–73 (Hebrew).
2. Ibid., pp. 28–29.
3. Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), p. 21 (Hebrew). The book was also published in English, but the translation does not always reflect the original, and I have translated the passages quoted in this book from the Hebrew source.
4. Ibid., p. 18.
5. Devorah Dayan, In Joy and in Sorrow (Be-Osher u-be-Yagon) (Tel-Aviv, 1957), p. 7 (Hebrew).
6. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 19.
7. Ibid., p. 23.
8. The description of the attack on Deganya Bet and the burning shack appears in S. Dayan, Banks, pp. 260–62.
9. Literally, a seat of residence. A moshav by the name of Ein Ganim was actually founded near the veteran moshava (village) of Petah Tikva in 1908. It was based on small auxiliary farms to supplement worker incomes. In the 1930s, Ein Ganim was swallowed up by Petah Tikva’s municipal boundaries. As a result, Nahalal is commonly regarded as the country’s first moshav and remains an agricultural settlement to this day.
10. Shmuel Dayan, Nahalalim: A Forty-Year Story (Nahalalim: Sippur Arbba’im Shana) (Tel Aviv, 1961), pp. 80–83 (Hebrew).
11. The letter is reprinted in full ibid., p. 61.
12. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 29.
13. The description is based on Shabtai Teveth, Moshe Dayan (Tel Aviv, 1971), p. 63 (Hebrew).
14. Moshe Dayan, Living with the Bible (Lihiot Im ha Tanach) (Jerusalem, 1978), p. 15 (Hebrew).
15. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 29. The incident is also mentioned in S. Dayan, Nahalalim, p. 69.
16. Teveth, Moshe Dayan, p. 97.
17. Ibid., p. 99.
18. Ibid., p. 110.
1. Shabtai Teveth, Moshe Dayan (Tel Aviv, 1971), p. 139 (Hebrew).
2. Ruth Dayan and Helga Dudman, And Maybe … The Story of Ruth Dayan (Ve Ouly Sipura shell Ruth Dayan) (Jerusalem, 1973), p. 28 (Hebrew). The book was also published in English, but I have translated the passages quoted in this book from the Hebrew source.
3. Teveth, Moshe Dayan, p. 144.
4. Dayan and Dudman, And Maybe …, p. 31.
5. Ibid.; Teveth, Moshe Dayan, p. 149.
6. Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), p. 35 (Hebrew).
7. Cited in Ora Armani, Friend and Confidant: Talks with Sini (Haver ve-Ish Sod: Sihot im Sini) (Tel Aviv, 2008), p. 105 (Hebrew).
8. Teveth, Moshe Dayan, p. 171.
9. Ruth Dayan to Moshe Dayan, cited in the collection of letters Moshe Dayan wrote to Ruth during his imprisonment, My Ruthie (Ruti Sheli) (Lod, 2001), p. 34.
10. Moshe Dayan to Ruth Dayan, ibid., p. 33.
11. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 45.
12. Moshe Dayan to Ruth Dayan, My Ruthie, p. 79.
13. Moshe Dayan, “With the Invaders to Syria,” in Z. Gilead, ed., A Clandestine Shield: Operations of the Jewish-Palestinian Underground during the Second World War (Magen ba Seter: MePeulot ha’ Mahteret ha Eretz-Israelit be’ Milhemet ha Olam ha Shnia) (Tel Aviv, 1949), p. 140 (Hebrew).
14. Testimony of Zalman Mart, Israel Defense Forces Archive [hereafter IDF Archive], Tel Ha Shomer, Israel.
15. M. Dayan, “With the Invaders to Syria,” p. 144.
16. Dayan and Dudman, And Maybe …, p. 108.
17. Army form W3118 RAF, Division 6057/File 1, IDF Archive. This form is in English.
1. Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), p. 52 (Hebrew).
2. Ruth Dayan and Helga Dudman, And Maybe… The Story of Ruth Dayan (Ve Ouly Sipura shell Ruth Dayan) (Jerusalem, 1973), p. 109 (Hebrew).
3. Shabtai Teveth, Moshe Dayan (Tel Aviv, 1971), p. 217 (Hebrew).
4. Dayan and Dudman, And Maybe…, p. 114
5. Menachem Begin, The Revolt (Ha-Mered) (Tel Aviv, 1954), p. 391 (Hebrew).
6. Mapai is an acronym for the Workers of Eretz Israel Party.
7. Dayan and Dudman, And Maybe …, p. 118.
8. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 56.
9. Ibid., p. 57.
10. Ibid., p. 61.
11. The IDF did not yet have officer ranks but Yigal Allon was soon to be appointed one of four commanders of the main fronts, with the shoulder insignia of major-general.
12. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 64.
13. Ibid.
14. Moshe Dayan, “The Commando Battalion Attacks Lod [Gdud ha-Commando Oleh al Lod],” Ma’arakhot 62–63 (July 1950), p. 37 (Hebrew).
15. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 79.
16. Interview with Ruth Dayan, June 2009.
17. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 88.
18. Ibid.
19. Minutes, Delegates Conference, July 23, 1950, File 2463/2, Israel State Archive, Jerusalem.
20. The document is included in the chief of General Staff Bureau logbook for January 27, 1958, IDF Archive, Tel Ha Shomer, Israel.
1. Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), p. 98.
2. Moshe Dayan, Living with the Bible (Lihiot Im ha Tanach) (Jerusalem, 1978), p. 9 (Hebrew).
3. See, for instance, File 1034/425/1965, IDF Archive, Tel Ha Shomer, Israel.
4. After her marriage, she changed her surname to Barnoach; here she is referred to as Neora Matalon or Neora.
5. Neora Matalon-Barnoach, A Good Spot on the Side (Makom Tov ba-Tzad) (Tel Aviv, 2009), p. 21 (Hebrew).
6. Shabtai Teveth, Moshe Dayan (Tel Aviv, 1971), p. 376 (Hebrew).
7. Moshe Dayan, “Military Activity in Peacetime [Pe’ilut Tzva’it bi-Y’mei Shalom],” Ba’Mahaneh (September 5, 1955).
8. Dayan’s article appeared with modifications in the soldiers’ weekly Ba’Mahaneh, in the monthly review for IDF officers, and in the professional organ Ma’arakhot (Campaigns). An English version appeared in the U.S. journal Foreign Affairs. The quote in the text is from the Hebrew monthly review of August 1955, pp. 8–11.
9. Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), p. 114 (Hebrew).
10. For a good review of Arab infiltration during 1949–53, see Benny Morris, Israeli Border Wars, 1949–1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War (Oxford, 1993), pp. 200–226.
11. Yaël Dayan, My Father, His Daughter (Tel Aviv, 1985), p. 99 (Hebrew). The book was also published in English, but I have translated the passages quoted in this book from the Hebrew source.
12. Moshe Sharett, Personal Diary (Yoman Ishi) (Tel Aviv, 1978), vol. 1, p. 29, entry for October 12, 1953 (Hebrew).
13. The two memoirs were Milestones and his first book, Diary of the Sinai Campaign (Yoman Ma’arekhet Sinai) (Tel Aviv, 1965).
14. Sharett, Personal Diary, vol. 6, p. 840.
1. Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), p. 143 (Hebrew).
2. Ibid., p. 122.
3. Transcript of Dayan’s lecture at a conference of senior commanders, January 15, 1956, author’s personal files; also available in the IDF Archive, Tel Ha Shomer, Israel.
4. See the chief of General Staff’s review at the GHQ meeting of April 18, 1955, IDF Archive.
5. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 151.
6. Minutes of meeting of September 30, 1955, Protocol File, Ben-Gurion Archive, Ben-Gurion Center, Sde Boker, Israel.
7. Interview with Ruth Dayan, June 2009.
8. The telegram is cited in M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 154. Ben-Gurion was popularly known as the “Old Man.”
9. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 566.
10. Interview with Rachel Dayan, January 26, 2009, Tel Aviv.
11. Chief of General Staff Bureau logbook [hereafter CGS Bureau logbook], November 5, 1955, IDF Archive, Tel Ha Shomer, Israel.
12. Ibid., November 13, 1955; also quoted in M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 164.
13. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 165.
14. Minutes of the meeting of the Senior Forum, November 17, 1955, IDF Archive.
15. Moshe Sharett, Personal Diary (Yoman Ishi) (Tel Aviv, 1978), vol. 4, p. 1307, entry for December 12, 1955.
16. Telegram from Moshe Sharett to Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, File 2455/4, Israel State Archive, Jerusalem.
17. Minutes of the meeting of the Senior Forum, December 15, 1955, IDF Archive.
18. Minutes of the meeting of the Senior Forum, January 5, 1956, IDF Archive.
19. Minutes of Ben-Gurion’s speech to the High Command, Ben-Gurion Archive, Ben-Gurion Center, Sde Boker, Israel. Part of Ben-Gurion’s speech is cited in M. Dayan, Milestones, pp. 174–75.
1. Moshe Dayan, “Facts to Assess the Situation of 1956” (Hebrew), mimeographed document handed out to senior IDF officers. A copy is in the author’s possession.
2. Minutes of conference of senior military staff, March 8, 1956, IDF Archive, Tel Ha Shomer, Israel.
3. CGS Bureau logbook, April 4, 1956, IDF Archive.
4. The eulogy is printed in Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), p. 191 (Hebrew).
5. Shimon Peres, David’s Slingshot: The Secrets of Israel’s Armament (Kela David: Sodot Ha-Hitatzmut shel Israel) (Jerusalem, 1970), p. 42 (Hebrew).
6. Maurice Challe later served as military commander in Algiers and took part in the mutiny of generals against de Gaulle. He was imprisoned but released at the end of his life because of a terminal illness.
7. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 207.
8. Minutes of meeting of Ben-Gurion, Dayan, and Shimon Peres, June 27, 1956, Ben-Gurion Archive, Ben-Gurion Center, Sde Boker, Israel.
9. Minutes of meeting of Ben-Gurion, Dayan, and Shimon Peres, July 10, 1956, Ben-Gurion Archive.
10. Ben-Gurion Diaries, entry of August 2, 1956, Ben-Gurion Archive.
11. Shabtai Teveth, Moshe Dayan (Tel Aviv, 1971), p. 454 (Hebrew).
12. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 377.
13. CGS Bureau logbook, September 12, 1956.
14. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 229.
15. Ibid., p. 228.
16. Ibid., p. 230.
17. Ibid., p. 235.
18. Ibid., pp. 243–44.
1. Moshe Dayan, Diary of the Sinai Campaign (Yoman Maarekhet Sinai) (Tel Aviv, 1956), pp. 40–41 (Hebrew).
2. Anthony Eden, Full Circle: The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Anthony Eden (London, 1960), p. 512.
3. Quoted from an unpublished essay written in Hebrew by Shimon Peres a few days after the event. I would like to thank Peres for placing the document at my disposal.
4. Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), p. 253 (Hebrew).
5. Ibid.
6. The description of events at the Sèvres conference rests on my detailed minutes, entered into the CGS Bureau logbook for October 21–24, 1956, IDF Archive, Tel Ha Shomer, Israel.
7. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 257.
8. CGS Bureau logbook, October 24, 1956.
9. Ben-Gurion Diaries, entry of October 23, 1956, Ben-Gurion Archive, Ben-Gurion Center, Sde Boker, Israel.
10. CGS Bureau logbook, October 25, 1956.
11. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 288.
12. Ibid., p. 296.
13. Ibid., p. 311.
14. Ibid., p. 316.
15. Ibid., p. 278. This assertion was widely publicized and had several versions. Thus, for example, his daughter, Yaël, wrote: “Better to restrain a wild horse than to goad a stubborn mule” (Yaël Dayan, My Father, His Daughter [Tel Aviv, 1985], p. 98 [Hebrew]).
16. Mordechai Bar-On, A Man of the Last Century (Ben Ha’Mea She’Avra) (Jerusalem, 2011), p. 227.
17. Moshe Dayan, introduction to Nathan Alterman, The Silver Platter: Selected Poems (Magash ha-Kessef: Mivhar Shirim) (Tel Aviv, 1973), pp. 6–7 (Hebrew).
1. Yaël Dayan, My Father, His Daughter (Tel Aviv, 1985), p. 129 (Hebrew).
2. Ruth Dayan and Helga Dudman, And Maybe … The Story of Ruth Dayan (Ve Ouly Sipura shell Ruth Dayan) (Jerusalem, 1973), p. 178 (Hebrew).
3. Interview with Rachel Dayan, January 28, 2009.
4. Dayan and Dudman, And Maybe …, p. 187.
5. Ibid., p. 189.
6. Interview with Rachel Dayan, January 28, 2009.
7. The letter is quoted in full in Y. Dayan, My Father, His Daughter, pp. 141–43.
8. Knesset session of November 7, 1956, Knesset Records (Divrei ha-Knesset) (Jerusalem), vol. 22, pp. 197–200 (Hebrew).
9. The quotation and description are taken from Dayan’s report to Ben-Gurion at their meeting of December 21, 1957, which is cited in full in Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), pp. 365–72 (Hebrew).
10. CGS Bureau logbook, January 15, 1957, IDF Archive, Tel Ha Shomer, Israel.
11. Minutes of Ben-Gurion’s talk with the generals are summarized in the CGS Bureau logbook, March 1, 1957, and cited in Milestones, p. 334.
12. CGS Bureau logbook, March 4, 1957.
13. Minutes of meeting of Ben-Gurion, Dayan, and Shimon Peres, March 15, 1957, Ben-Gurion Archive, Ben-Gurion Center, Sde Boker, Israel.
14. CGS Bureau logbook, March 5, 1957.
15. Minutes of meeting of Ben-Gurion, Dayan, and Peres, March 15, 1957.
16. CGS Bureau logbook, March 13, 1957.
17. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 341.
18. Minutes of the GHQ meeting, March 10, 1957, IDF Archive.
19. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 359.
20. Meir Amit, Head On: A Personal View of Great Events and Other Affairs (Rosh be-Rosh: Mabat Ishi al Eruim Gdolim u-Parashot Aherot) (Even Yehuda, 1999), pp. 87–88 (Hebrew).
21. The letter is quoted in full in M. Dayan, Milestones, pp. 375–76.
1. Yaël Dayan, My Father, His Daughter (Tel Aviv, 1985), p. 102 (Hebrew).
2. Ibid., p. 103.
3. Interview with Rachel Dayan, January 28, 2009.
4. Shabtai Teveth, Moshe Dayan (Tel Aviv, 1971), p. 486 (Hebrew).
5. Maariv, May 26, 1958 (Hebrew).
6. Minutes of the Beit Berl Ideological Forum, June 7, 1958, Mapai Party Archive, Beit Berl, Tzofit, Israel.
7. Maariv, November 23, 1958 (Hebrew).
8. Ha’aretz, December 28, 1958.
9. Davar, December 31, 1958.
10. Neora Matalon-Barnoach, A Good Spot on the Side (Makom Tov ba-Tzad) (Tel Aviv, 2009), p. 75 (Hebrew).
11. Teveth, Moshe Dayan, p. 503.
12. Matalon-Barnoach, Good Spot, p. 76.
13. Teveth, Moshe Dayan, p. 505.
14. Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), p. 377 (Hebrew).
15. Interview with Leah Morris, February 20, 2009.
16. Knesset session of November 16, 1960, Knesset Records (Divrei ha-Knesset) (Jerusalem, 1961), vol. 30, pp. 245 (Hebrew).
17. Matalon-Barnoach, Good Spot, p. 104.
18. See, e.g., Maariv, July 14, 1963.
19. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 388.
20. Minutes to Avihail conference, June 28, 1965, Avihail, Israel, published as a pamphlet.
21. Ha’aretz, June 29, 1965.
22. Teveth, Moshe Dayan, pp. 545–46.
23. Y. Dayan, My Father, His Daughter, pp. 112–13.
24. Ruth Dayan and Helga Dudman, And Maybe … The Story of Ruth Dayan (Ve Ouly Sipura shell Ruth Dayan) (Jerusalem, 1973), p. 193 (Hebrew).
25. Y. Dayan, My Father, His Daughter, p. 113.
26. Interview with Rachel Dayan, January 28, 2009.
27. Ibid.
28. Dayan and Dudman, And Maybe …, p. 175.
1. Quoted in Arie Brown, Personal Seal: Moshe Dayan in the Six Day War and After (Hotam Ishi: Moshe Dayan be-Milhemet Sheshet ha-Yamim ve-Ahareha) (Tel Aviv, 1997), p. 16 (Hebrew). Brown was Dayan’s military secretary.
2. Minutes of GHQ meeting, June 1, 1967, IDF Archive, Tel Ha Shomer, Israel.
3. Yitzhak Rabin, Service Book (Pinkas Sherut) (Tel Aviv, 1979), p. 181 (Hebrew).
4. Eitan Haber, Today a War Will Erupt: The Memoirs of Brigadier General Israel Lior, the Military Secretary of Prime Ministers Levi Eshkol and Golda Meir (Hayom Tifretz Milhama: Zikhronot Tat-Aluf Israel Lior, Ha’ Mazkir Ha, Tsvais shel Rashei Ha’Memshala Levi Eshkol ve Golda Meir) (Jerusalem, 1987), pp. 212–13 (Hebrew). Colonel Israel Lior was Eshkol’s military secretary.
5. Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), p. 423.
6. Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (New York, 2002).
7. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 426.
8. Ibid., p. 433.
9. Oren, Six Days, p. 176.
10. Yaël Dayan, My Father, His Daughter (Tel Aviv, 1985), p. 133 (Hebrew).
11. Rabin, Service Book, p. 191.
12. Quoted from the minutes by Shimon Golan in War on Three Fronts (Milhama be-Shalosh Hazitot) (Tel Aviv, 2007), p. 236 (Hebrew).
13. Brown, Personal Seal, p. 64.
14. Dayan’s words appeared in all the Israeli newspapers of Thursday, June 8, 1967.
15. Haber, Today a War Will Erupt, p. 234.
16. Y. Erez and I. Kfir, Conversations with Moshe Dayan (Sihot im Moshe Dayan) (Givatayim, 1981), p. 50 (Hebrew).
17. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 475.
18. Brown, Personal Seal, p. 88.
19. Rabin, Service Book, p. 199.
20. Haber, Today a War Will Erupt, p. 251.
21. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 475.
22. The chronology is recounted in Brown, Personal Seal, p. 95.
23. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 480.
24. Ezer Weizman, Yours Is the Sky, Yours the Land (Lekha Shamayim, Lekha Aretz) (Tel Aviv, 1975), p. 265 (Hebrew).
1. Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), p. 494 (Hebrew). Zion Square was the main square in the western city.
2. Ibid., pp. 492–93.
3. Yossi Goldstein, Eshkol: A Biography (Levi Eshkol—Biographia) (Jerusalem, 2003), p. 586 (Hebrew).
4. Dayan first said this in a speech in Tel Aviv on November 30, 1967. He cites the speech in Moshe Dayan, A New Map, Different Relations (Mapa Hadasha—Yahasim Aherim) (Tel Aviv, 1969), p. 17 (Hebrew).
5. Ibid., p. 173.
6. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 495.
7. Arie Brown, Personal Seal: Moshe Dayan in the Six Day War and After (Hotam Ishi: Moshe Dayan be-Milhemet Sheshet ha-Yamim ve-Ahareha) (Tel Aviv, 1997), p. 112 (Hebrew).
8. The radio broadcast was on December 28, 1968, and it is quoted in Dayan, New Map, p. 135.
9. Shlomo Gazit, Trapped: Thirty Years of Israeli Policy in the Territories (Peta’im ba-Malkodet: 30 Shnot Midiniyut Israel ba-Shtahim) (Tel Aviv, 1999), p. 61 (Hebrew).
10. Ibid., p. 62.
11. See below.
12. Tom Segev, 1967: And the Land Changed Its Face (1967: Ve’ha’arets Shinta at Paneiha) (Jerusalem, 2005), p. 412 (Hebrew).
13. Conversation with Joseph Geva, April 3, 2007.
14. Gazit, Trapped, p. 67.
15. Abu Ayad, Without a Homeland: Talks with Eric Rouleau (Lelo Moledet: Sihot im Eric Rouleau) (Jerusalem, 1979), p. 98 (Hebrew).
16. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 532.
17. Interview with Rachel Dayan, January 28, 2009.
18. Yaël Dayan, My Father, His Daughter (Tel Aviv, 1985), p. 146.
19. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 513.
20. Ibid., p. 514.
21. Ibid., p. 518.
22. Ibid., p. 522.
1. Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), p. 526 (Hebrew).
2. Ibid., p. 548.
3. Ibid., p. 551.
4. Ibid., p. 566.
5. Yaël Dayan, My Father, His Daugher (Tel Aviv, 1985), p. 151; Ruth Dayan and Helga Dudman, And Maybe … The Story of Ruth Dayan (Ve Ouly Sipura shell Ruth Dayan) (Jerusalem, 1973), pp. 7, 11 (Hebrew).
6. Interview with Ruth Dayan, June 2009.
7. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 534.
8. Interview with Trude Dothan, April 4, 2009.
1. Arie Brown, Moshe Dayan in the Yom Kippur War (Moshe Dayan be-Milhemet Yom ha-Kippurim) (Tel-Aviv, 1997), pp. 28–29 (Hebrew). Lt. Col. Arie Brown was Dayan’s military adjutant and managed his personal diary.
2. The Hebrew word mehdal was a new term that soon came to symbolize the criticism leveled at the leadership for its blunders in the Yom Kippur War.
3. The radio broadcast was also reported in all the major newspapers the next day.
4. Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), p. 598 (Hebrew).
5. The testimony of the air force commander in this regard appears reliable: Dayan himself confirmed it in an interview toward the end of his life. See Yaakov Erez, Talks with Moshe Dayan (Sihot im Moshe Dayan) (Tel Aviv, 1981) (Hebrew).
6. Brown, Dayan in the Yom Kippur War, p. 98.
7. Ibid., p. 101.
8. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 600.
9. Naphtali Lavie was a senior journalist who on July 1, 1970, answered Dayan’s call to serve as the spokesman of the minister’s bureau and filled the position until Dayan’s resignation as minister of defense. The quotation is from Lavie’s memoirs, A Nation Like a Lion (Am ke-Lavie) (Or-Yehuda, 1994), p. 278 (Hebrew).
10. Brown, Dayan in the Yom Kippur War, p. 141.
11. Brown, Dayan in the Yom Kippur War.
12. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 620. Meir, in her memoirs, recounts that Dayan had offered to resign on the first day of the war. She adds that she had never regretted spurning the offer. See Golda Meir, My Life (Hayai) (Tel Aviv, 1975), p. 312 (Hebrew).
13. For a detailed description of Kissinger’s maneuvering, see Matti Golan, The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger (Ha-Sihot ha-Sodiot shel Henry Kissinger) (Jerusalem, 1976) (Hebrew). The book was also published in English, but I have translated the passages quoted in this book from the Hebrew source.
14. Brown, Dayan in the Yom Kippur War.
1. Golda Meir, My Life (Hayai) (Tel Aviv, 1975), p. 321 (Hebrew).
2. Moshe Dayan, Milestones: An Autobiography (Avnei Derekh: Autobiographia) (Jerusalem, 1976), p. 663 (Hebrew).
3. These details appear in Matti Golan, The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger (Ha-Sihot ha-Sodiot shel Henry Kissinger), pp. 163 and 169 (Hebrew).
4. Ha’aretz, January 19, 1974. The document was written in English and appeared in English in the newspaper.
5. The Agranat Commission Preliminary Report (Jerusalem, 1974) (Hebrew).
6. The texts of the signs are cited in Motti Ashkenazi, War Will Break Out This Evening at Six (Ha-Erev be-Shesh Tifrotz Milhama) (Tel Aviv, 2003), p. 151 (Hebrew).
7. Ibid., p. 173. Dayan’s reaction is in Milestones, p. 729.
8. M. Dayan, Milestones, p. 727.
9. The Agranat Commission Preliminary Report, pp. 34–43.
10. Ibid., pp. 45–49.
11. Meir, My Life, p. 332.
12. M. Dayan, Milestones, pp. 721–22.
13. Ibid., p. 737.
14. Ibid., pp. 737–38.
15. Neora Matalon-Barnoach, A Good Spot on the Side (Makom Tov ba-Tzad) (Tel Aviv, 2009), p. 228. Milestones was published in 1976 by a distinguished Israeli publishing house.
16. Moshe Dayan, Living with the Bible (Lihiot Im ha Tanacho) (Jerusalem, 1978), p. 202 (Hebrew).
17. Interview with Rachel Dayan, June 29, 2009.
18. Naphtali Lavie, A Nation Like a Lion (Am ke-Lavie) (Or-Yehuda, 1994), p. 306 (Hebrew).
1. The description is from Ezer Weizman, The War for Peace—Personal Observations (Ha-Krav al ha-Shalom—Tazpit Ishit) (Jerusalem, 1981), p. 90 (Hebrew).
2. Arye Naor, Begin as Ruler (Begin ba-Shilton) (Tel Aviv, 1993), pp. 49–50 (Hebrew). Naor was Begin’s cabinet secretary.
3. Moshe Dayan, Shall the Sword Devour Forever? Peace Talks—Personal Impressions (Ha-la-Netzah Tokhal Herev? Sihot Shalom—Reshamim Ishiim) (Jerusalem, 1981), p. 18 (Hebrew).
4. Interview with Rachel Dayan, June 29, 2009.
5. M. Dayan, Shall the Sword? p. 26.
6. Naphtali Lavie kept a logbook, which he cites in his memoir A Nation Like a Lion (Am ke-Lavie) (Or-Yehuda, 1994) (Hebrew). Rubinstein published a memoir about this period, Roads of Peace (Darkhei Shalom) (Tel Aviv, 1992) (Hebrew).
7. Lavie, Nation Like a Lion, p. 324.
8. Ibid., pp. 329–30.
9. Ibid., p. 334. While speaking, he pointed at Lavie, who was a survivor of the Holocaust.
10. Egypt’s foreign minister, Ismail Fahmi, had resigned in protest over Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem and was temporarily replaced by his deputy, Boutros-Ghali.
11. Elyakim Rubinstein was in the vehicle and describes the conversation in Roads of Peace, p. 50.
12. M. Dayan, Shall the Sword? p. 96.
13. On the liaison office in Cairo, see the book by his strategic affairs adviser, who headed the operation: Avraham Tamir, Peace-Loving Soldier (Hayal Shoher Shalom) (Tel Aviv, 1988) (Hebrew).
14. Weizman’s remarks appeared in Yedioth Ahronoth, April 12, 1978.
15. M. Dayan, Shall the Sword? pp. 119–20.
16. Lavie, Nation Like a Lion, p. 362.
17. M. Dayan, Shall the Sword? pp. 124–25.
18. Ibid., p. 132.
19. Ibid., p. 158.
20. Ibid., p. 201.
21. Ibid., p. 204.
22. Ibid., p. 217.
23. Ibid., p. 223.
1. Moshe Dayan, Shall the Sword Devour Forever? Peace Talks—Personal Impressions (Ha-la-Netzah Tokhal Herev? Sihot Shalom—Reshamim Ishiim) (Jerusalem, 1981), p. 233 (Hebrew).
2. Interview with Rachel Dayan, June 29, 2009.
3. Cited in Nathan Yanai, ed., Moshe Dayan on the Peace Process and the Future of Israel (Moshe Dayan al Tahalikh ha-Shalom ve-Atida shel Yisrael) (Tel Aviv, 1988), pp. 157–58 (Hebrew).
4. The book, Shall the Sword Devour Forever?, was published in the summer of 1981, a few weeks before Dayan’s death.
5. Interview with Rachel Dayan, June 29, 2009.
6. Yaël Dayan, My Father, His Daughter (Tel Aviv, 1985), p. 180 (Hebrew).
7. Ibid., p. 185.
8. His positions are cited in full in Yanai, Dayan on the Peace Process: see the Seventh Conference, May 26, 1979, pp. 151–54; the Eighth Conference, November 10, 1979, pp. 163–77; and particularly the Ninth Conference, May 17, 1980, pp. 185–96.
9. Knesset session of December 24, 1980, Knesset Records (Divrei ha-Knesset) (Jerusalem, 1981), vol. 90, pp. 975–76 (Hebrew).
10. Yanai, Dayan on the Peace Process, pp. 152–53.
11. Interview with Rachel Dayan, June 29, 2009.
12. Ibid.
13. Ehud Ben-Ezer, Courage: The Story of Moshe Dayan (Ometz: Sipuro shel Moshe Dayan) (Tel Aviv, 1997), p. 321 (Hebrew).
14. Ibid., p. 324.
15. Ibid.
1. Avner Falk, Moshe Dayan, the Man and the Legend: A Psychological Biography (Moshe Dayan, Ha’Ish ve Ha’agada: Biographia Pshycho’analitit) (Jerusalem, 1986) (Hebrew).
2. These words are from a Hebrew poem he wrote to his children and Rachel not long before his death. Rachel Dayan gave the author a copy of the poem.