WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 -- The greatest general in the history of his nation and -arguably - in Jewish history since King David 3,000 years ago remains a dramatic legend around the world. But he is nearly ...

Elegantly dressed and perfectly made up, Ruth Dayan, 95, receives me with a wide smile in her Tel Aviv home overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The charismatic, alert, and extremely intelligent Dayan ...

The grave of Moshe Dayan was vandalized on the anniversary of the former Israeli defense minister's death. Graffiti reading “The minister of failure, on behalf of the fallen” was painted in red on ...

As President Trump pushes to finalize a Gaza ceasefire and hostage exchange, one Israeli family warns that freeing a ...

One of the “sticky points” surrounding President Trump’s trip to Israel is his visit to the Western Wall (known in Hebrew as the Kotel or wall). President Trump’s team insisted that Israeli Prime ...

MOSHE DAYAN: ISRAEL’S CONTROVERSIAL HERO By Mordechai Bar-On Yale University Press, $25, 264 pages Shortly after Israel’s stunning victory in the 1967 Six Day War, a cartoon appeared simply showing ...

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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Filmmaker and actor Assi Dayan, the son of the late Israeli general Moshe Dayan, has died. Dayan was discovered dead in his Tel Aviv home on Thursday. He was 68 and had suffered from ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Celebrated Israeli actor and director Assi Dayan, whose father Moshe Dayan became internationally known as Israel's eye patch-wearing defence minister during two Middle East wars ...

(JTA) — Yael Dayan, the daughter of a famed Israeli military and political leader who charted her own course as a champion of peace, gay rights and women’s rights in Israel, died Saturday. She was 85.