Moshe Dayan Signed Time Magazine Cover.

DAYAN, Moshe.

$850.00

Item Number: 138437

Chicago: Time Magazine, June 16. 1967.

Original cover from the June 16, 1967 issue of Time Magazine featuring a portrait of Moshe Dayan, signed by him, “M. Dayan.” In near fine condition. Accompanied by a letter signed by Dayan’s secretary on his Officer of the Minister of Defence letterheard dated August 14, 1967 returning the signed cover to collector Karl Peterson. In near fine condition.

As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces during the 1956 Suez Crisis, and as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, Israeli military leader and politician Moshe Dayan became a worldwide fighting symbol of the new state of Israel. Dayan was close to David Ben-Gurion and joined him in leaving the Mapai party and setting up the Rafi party in 1965 with Shimon Peres. Dayan became Defence Minister just before the 1967 Six-Day War. After the Yom Kippur War of 1973, during which Dayan served as Defense Minister, he was blamed for the lack of preparedness; after some time he resigned. In 1977, following the election of Menachem Begin as Prime Minister, Dayan was expelled from the Labor Party because he joined the Likud-led government as Foreign Minister, playing an important part in negotiating the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.