Tuesday, October 19, 2010

DAYAN, MOSHE

Dayan, the legendary Israeli general who achieved considerable fame during the 1967 Six-Day War, had been trained by the British in World War II as a member of a stay-behind network to conduct sabotage operations, collect intelligence, and harass the enemy in the event of a Nazi occupation of Palestine, a prospect that appeared quite likely in the event that Egypt fell to the Afrika Korps.