After the Yom Kippur War of 1973, during which Dayan served as Defense Minister, he was blamed for the lack of preparedness after some time he resigned. Dayan became Defence Minister just before the 1967 Six-Day War. Dayan was close to David Ben-Gurion and joined him in leaving the Mapai party and setting up the Rafi party in 1965 with Shimon Peres. He served in the Special Night Squads under Orde Wingate during the Arab revolt in Palestine and later lost an eye in a raid on Vichy forces in Lebanon during World War II. In the 1930s, Dayan joined the Haganah, the pre-state Jewish defense force of Mandatory Palestine.
As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) during the 1956 Suez Crisis, but mainly as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became a worldwide fighting symbol of the new state of Israel. Moshe Dayan ( Hebrew: משה דיין – 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. Degania Alef, Beirut Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
