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Moshe Dayan (Hebrew: משה דיין ; May 20, 1915 – October 16, 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) during the 1956 Sinai War, and as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became a worldwide fighting symbol of the new ...
Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon (Hebrew: משה יעלון; born Moshe Smilansky; 24 June 1950) is an Israeli politician and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, who also served as Israel's Defense Minister under Benjamin Netanyahu from 2013 until his resignation on 20 May 2016. [1]
The defense minister of Israel (Hebrew: שר הביטחון, Sar HaBitahon, lit. Minister of Security) [a] heads the ministry. The post is considered to be the second most important position in the Israeli cabinet, and usually has a deputy minister. The defense minister is also a permanent member of the Security Cabinet.
A former Israeli defense minister has accused Israel of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip, drawing a sharp rebuke from government ranks. Moshe Yaalon, a hawkish former ...
From December 2008 to January 2009, Barak led the Israel Defense Forces through Operation Cast Lead in his capacity as Minister of Defence. [23] Labor won only 13 out of the 120 Knesset seats in the 2009 elections, making them the fourth largest party. Barak and other Labor officials initially stated they would not take part in the next government.
Former Israeli Minister of Defense and IDF Chief of Staff Moshe 'Bogie' Ya'alon waits to take the stage before speaking at a rally against the Netanyahu government outside the Knesset on June 18 ...
Weizman joined the Israel Defense Forces and served as the Chief of Operations on the General Staff. [6] In 1951 he attended the RAF Staff College, Andover in England. Upon his return he became commander of Ramat David. [3] Weizman served as the commander of the Israeli Air Force between 1958 and 1966, and later served as deputy Chief of the ...
Shimon Peres (1923–2016), Second Vice Prime Minister, May 2006–, former defense and foreign minister, Prime Minister of Israel in 1977, 1984–1986, 1995–1996; Nobel Peace Prize 1994 Amir Peretz (b. 1952), Defense Minister May 2006–, Histadrut leader 1995–2005, leader of the Am Ehad party from 1997, which later merged into the Labour ...