Noah Efron writes on the passing of
Yael Dayan: “…Yael Dayan was the daughter of the most renowned and revered general Israel ever had…. Yael Dayan
died last week and no major world newspaper ran an obituary or even mentioned her.”
“Yael Dayan was the daughter of the most renowned and revered general Israel ever had, who oversaw, first as IDF chief of staff and then as minister of defense, three wars that gave shape, for better and for worse, to everything that has followed: the 1956 Sinai Campaign, the 1967 Six Day War, and the October 1973 Yom Kippur War.”
“Moshe Dayan was a hero who, when eulogizing a young man murdered by Gazans who captured him in the field of his kibbutz and dragged his corpse back with them over the border, famously said:
We are a generation that settles the land and without the steel helmet and the cannon’s maw, we will not be able to plant a tree and build a house…Let us not be deterred from seeing the loathing that is inflaming and filling the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Arabs who live around us and are waiting for the moment when their hands may claim our blood.
Let us not avert our eyes lest our arms weaken. This is the fate of our generation. This is our life’s choice – to be prepared and armed, strong and determined, lest the sword be stricken from our fist and our lives cut down.”
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