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...years of married life, Israel's Moshe Dayan has accumulated a notable collection of honors: war hero, general, Minister of Defense. Moshe and Ruth Dayan also have three children and five grandchildren, but otherwise their marriage has been far from blessed. Now it has ended with a rabbinical divorce. "All Israelis are friends, so Moshe and I will remain friends," said Ruth. Some newspapers speculated that another friend, handsome Divorcee Rachel Korem, might soon be the new Mrs. Dayan...
...Egyptian sniper with a keen eye and an impulse to start a new war could easily have done so last week. Atop a Suez Canal embankment, only 250 yards from peering Egyptian soldiers across the waterway, stood Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan; Major General David Elazar, the new chief of staff; and a cadre of other ranking officers. On an inspection visit to Israel's Bar-Lev Line, Dayan and his commanders seemed to be almost daring the Egyptians to start something. The remarks of various Israeli leaders during the week suggested that...
...joint settlement, however, the disposition of the holy places must be part of any broader agreement on Jerusalem. Jewish and Moslem shrines will not present much difficulty. Israel is not anxious to continue unilateral responsibility for non-Jewish holy places; soon after the '67 war, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan offered to let any designated Arab flag fly over the Dome of the Rock and other Moslem shrines. The offer still holds. Since Moslems already administer the shrines and support them as well, Arab flags above the minarets would be largely a matter of symbolism. What national flags they ought...
Tale out of School. During the Six-Day War, the book reveals, Dayan wanted the advancing Israeli forces to halt at the Mitla Pass or at Jidi in the Sinai. He opposed their going as far as the Suez Canal because, he argued, the waterway was essential to Egyptian prestige, and the war could never truly end with Israeli forces dug in on its bank. The army, however, reached the banks of the canal before Dayan's orders could effectively stop it. During the 1969-70 "war of attrition," he often visited the Israeli fortifications on the canal, which...
...Dayan also told Teveth a tale out of school. In September 1956, on his way to Paris to confer with the French on plans for that year's invasion of Egypt, Dayan alighted from a French bomber at Bizerte. As the base commander shook hands with Dayan, his Gallic glance fell on a pair of female legs groping helplessly from the underside of the plane for a ladder that was not yet there. "We choose secretaries with prettier legs than those," cracked the Frenchman. Moments later Golda Meir, then Foreign Minister, emerged from the plane...