Political Career
| Moshe Dayan | |
|---|---|
| Date of birth | 20 May 1915 |
| Place of birth | Kibbutz Degania Alef |
| Date of death | 16 October 1981 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |
| Knessets | 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
| Party | Telem |
| Former parties | Mapai, Rafi, Alignment |
| Ministerial posts | Minister of Agriculture Minister of Defense Minister of Foreign Affairs |
In 1959, a year after he retired from the IDF, Dayan joined Mapai, the leftist party in Israeli politics, then led by David Ben-Gurion. Until 1964, he served as the Minister of Agriculture. Dayan joined with the group of Ben-Gurion loyalists who defected from Mapai in 1965 to form Rafi. The Prime Minister Levi Eshkol disliked Dayan; however, when tensions began to rise in early 1967, Eshkol appointed the charismatic and popular Dayan as Minister of Defense in order to raise public morale and bring Rafi into a unity government.
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