Moshe Dayan

Six Day War (1967)

Although Dayan did not take part in most of the planning before the Six-Day War of June 1967, his appointment contributed to the Israeli success. Following the war, Dayan, whose traits did not include particular modesty, invested PR efforts to take credit for much of the fighting to himself. During the years following the war Dayan enjoyed enormous popularity in Israel and was widely viewed as a potential future Prime Minister. At this time Dayan was the leader of the hawkish camp within the Labor government, opposing return to anything like Israel's pre-1967 borders. He once said that he preferred Sharm-al-Sheikh (an Egyptian town on the Southern edge of the Sinai Peninsula overlooking Israel's shipping lane to the Red Sea via the Gulf of Aqaba) without peace to peace without Sharm-al-Sheikh. He modified these views later in his career and played an important role in the eventual peace agreement between Israel and Egypt.

Related Topics:
Six-Day War - Sharm-al-Sheikh - Sinai Peninsula - Red Sea - Gulf of Aqaba - Egypt

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