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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Rehavam Ze'evi, Yehuda Amichai, Amitai Etzioni, Mattityahu Peled, Amos Horev, Yehuda Bauer, Avshalom Haviv, Rafael Eitan, David Elazar, Rafi Eitan, Stef Wertheimer, Yigal Allon, Beni Virtzberg, Shulamit Aloni, Dahn Ben-Amotz, Moshe Shamir, Shmuel Yanai, Haim Bar-Lev, Arie Eliav, Haim Hefer, Yitzhak Sadeh, Haviva Reick, Mordechai Hod, Netiva Ben-Yehuda, Micha Bar-Am, Haim Gouri, Yair Tzaban, Shimon Tzabar, Arthur Goldreich, Yohai Ben-Nun, Uzi Narkiss, Eliyahu Golomb, Michael Harari, Shaike Ophir, Matanya Abramson, Zvi Zamir, Avraham Adan, Amnon Linn, Aharon Davidi, Meir Pa'il, Gavriel Cohen, Yoash Tzidon, Pinchas Ben-Porat, Shimon Avidan, Moshe Kelman, Elad Peled, Shmuel Tankus, Amnon Shamosh, Arna Mer-Khamis, Giora Shanan. Excerpt: Moshe Dayan (Hebrew: 20 May 1915 - 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. The fourth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953-58), he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new State of Israel. He went on to become Defense Minister and later Foreign Minister of Israel. Dayan with Yitzhak Sadeh and Yigal Allon, Kibbutz Hanita, 1938Moshe Dayan was born on Kibbutz Degania Alef near the shores of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) in pre-Mandate Palestine. His parents were Shmuel and Devorah, Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. He was the second child to be born on the kibbutz (after Gideon Baratz). He was named Moshe after Moshe Barsky, the first member of the kibbutz to be killed in an Arab attack. Soon after, his parents moved to Nahalal, the first Moshav to be established. He attended the Agricultural School there. At the age of 14, he joined the newly formed Jewish militia known as the Haganah. In 1938 he joined the Palestine Supernumerary Police and became a motorized patrol ("MAN") commander. One of his military heroes was ...