Word: dayan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conduct in 1961 was far more dangerous than whatever he had or had not done in 1954. At stake was Ben-Gurion's plan to bypass aging party chieftains such as Lavon and hand over power one day to Mapai's bright young men, headed by Moshe Dayan, 45, the one-eyed general who was army chief in 1954 and is now Minister of Agriculture and Ben-Gurion's chosen political heir. By suddenly resigning, Ben-Gurion in effect forced the party to choose between himself and Lavon...
...Israel's Defense Minister until 1955, when he was forced from office for what has been mysteriously described as a "disastrous affair'' in the previous year.- Lavon loudly denied responsibility, insisted he had been framed by two of Ben-Gurion's proteges: Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres, Director General of the Defense Ministry...
Four of the eight Mapai members defied Ben-Gurion; three others-including Moshe Dayan, one of the accused-said they would abstain. Foreign Minister Golda Meir, a potent force in Mapai, grew so angry that she wrote out her resignation, was persuaded to withdraw it, and then stalked out of the meeting. So did angry Prime Minister Ben-Gurion. By a vote of no, the remaining ministers cleared Pinhas Lavon...
...storm that followed, a special judicial commission delivered a secret report that is said to clear Lavon. Newspapers have managed to hint that Lavon's relations with young Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres, the whip-smart young director-general of the Defense Ministry, were terrible at the time. But Peres. 37, now B-G's Deputy Defense Minister, denies that he had any part in framing Lavon, and Dayan, 45, now Agriculture Minister and B-G's present favorite for the succession, has said nothing...