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With Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir running for a second full term this fall, the bruising battle for succession between Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir has been postponed. As far as Dayan is concerned, it is just as well: he probably would have lost. Still, at 58, Dayan has relinquished none of the brash assertiveness that earned him a reputation as the Young Turk of the Labor Party...
...shooting from the hip in public statements make it a long shot that he will ever become Prime Minister. Politics aside, his present position gives him virtual rule over the territories captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Married for the second time last month to Rahel Korem, 47, Dayan keeps up a furious schedule visiting the occupied territories-a fact that gives him considerable visibility and influence in the government...
TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter visited Dayan at his home in Tel Aviv for one of his infrequent interviews. "Dayan exudes the air of a man of destiny waiting in the wings," cabled Schecter. "When I arrived, he was just washing his hands after working on a reconstruction of a 3500 B.C. tomb figure. Framed by the archaeological finds in his garden, he took a long look at the Middle East. The next ten years, he predicted, will see the borders frozen along present lines-but there will not be a major...
Married. Moshe Dayan, 58, Israeli Defense Minister; and his longtime companion, Rahel Korem, 47; both for the second time; in a Tel Aviv suburb...
...Dayan's former wife Ruth lays partial blame for the breakup of her 36-year marriage on her husband's "long-lasting romance" with Korem, a divorcee who was once a government secretary...