Moshe Dayan

Serves as Foreign Minister in the Likud Government

According to those who knew him, the war deeply depressed Dayan. He went into political eclipse for a time. In 1977, despite having been re-elected to the Knesset on the Labor Party list, he became Foreign Minister in the new Likud government led by Menachem Begin. While Dayan never formally joined the Likud, this move was still seen as a betrayal by many of his Labor colleagues. As Prime Minister Menachem Begin's foreign minister, he was instrumental in drawing up the Camp David Accords, a peace agreement with Egypt. Dayan withdrew in 1980 (joined by Ezer Weizman who then defected to Labor), because of his disagreement with Begin over whether the Palestinian territories were an Israeli internal matter (the Camp David treaty included provisions for future negotiations with the Palestinians; Begin, who didn't like the idea, did not put Dayan in charge of the negotiation team.)

Related Topics:
Knesset - Likud - Menachem Begin - Camp David Accords - 1980 - Ezer Weizman

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