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...Dayan has become a larger-than-life figure, and his black eye patch a cartoonists' symbol of Israeli military proficiency. The man behind the eye patch, a laconic loner, is less well known. Now a number of fresh glimpses are provided in Moshe Dayan-A Biography, a 601-page study published in Israel last week and scheduled to be issued in the U.S. by Random House next fall...
Fastest Wit. The author is Hungarian-born Shabtai Teveth, 45, a leading Israeli journalist and writer (The Tanks of Tammuz), who had nine lengthy interviews with Dayan. Teveth portrays an earthy, sometimes unpredictable man -and the fastest wit in the Middle East. Stopped on one occasion by a military policeman for driving 75 m.p.h. when the military speed limit was 44 m.p.h., Dayan said with a wry smile: "I have only one eye. What do you want me to watch-the speedometer or the road...
Called "Moussik," a diminutive of Moshe, by his mother, Dayan was 18 before his first girl friend persuaded him to change from short pants to long trousers as the mark of a man. A year later, another girl turned down a proposal of marriage from the kibbutz-born Dayan because, she said, she did not want to be married to a farm...
...Dayan lost his left eye in 1941 when, fighting for the British army, he led a raid into Vichy-held Syria. He was peering through field glasses when a bullet hit the eyepiece, driving metal and glass splinters into his eye. He had to wait six hours for transport to a hospital...
Doctors in Jerusalem, Paris and Johannesburg have failed in attempts to fit him with an artificial eye. Author Teveth says that Dayan still frets that his patch makes him look like a highwayman and sometimes frightens small children...