Word: dayan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other side, where the Israelis freely permitted correspondents into the war zone, the hazards were far greater. One American who tragically proved this was LIFE Photographer Paul Schutzer, killed by an Egyptian antitank shell (see PRESS). Among the last pictures taken by Schutzer was the photo of General Moshe Dayan on which our cover portrait is based...
Correspondent Israel Shenker, who had interviewed Dayan the week before, was in the office of Israeli Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin when word came that Egypt had accepted the ceasefire. "Where's the champagne?" asked Shenker. Tea was served instead. Meanwhile, Peter Forbath managed to see some of the fighting on three fronts-Gaza, Jordan and Sinai. The trouble was keeping up with the speeding Israeli army. "I saw grotesque dead and wounded, equipment abandoned intact, stunned and frightened captured Arabs," he said. "But in a way, I truly felt the reality of the war in blacked...
Jealous of Moshe Dayan's stunningly quick victory, South Viet Nam's Premier Ky asked him how he did it. "Well, to start with," said the Israeli Defense Minister, "it helps if you can arrange to fight against Arabs." Lyndon Johnson personally sent a black eyepatch to General Westmoreland. Nasser quit, but Levi Eshkol refused to accept his resignation. At week's end, the New York Times ran a full-page ad for Israel's El Al Airlines: VISIT ISRAEL AND SEE THE PYRAMIDS...
...avoid bloodshed on either side of the border." Nonetheless, pressured by politicians and anxious that Israel should be ready if diplomacy fails and open war does come, Eshkol last week relinquished the post of Defense Minister that he had kept for himself and turned it over to General Moshe Dayan, 52, the dashing, one-eyed hero of the Sinai campaign and an ally of ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion, now a chief critic of Eshkol...
...that he was. After being rebuffed in his attempts by the laborite Mapai Party, which he had founded, B-G rallied his old friends around him to form a new political party and set out to defeat Eshkol in the 1965 parliamentary elections. Even with Dayan at his side, he did not come close. Eshkol, with organized labor behind him, swamped Ben-Gurion at the polls, put together a solid government coalition in Parliament that could outvote the combined opposition by nearly...