Editing Moshe Dayan (section)

==Death and legacy==
[[File:Keverdayan1.jpg|thumb|250px|Dayan's grave in the [[Nahalal Cemetery]] ]]
The [[Telem (political party)|Telem]] party won two seats in the [[1981 Israeli legislative election|1981 elections]], but Dayan died shortly thereafter, in [[Tel Aviv]], from a massive [[heart attack]]. He had been in ill-health since 1980, after he was diagnosed with [[colon cancer]] later that year. He is buried in [[Nahalal]] in the ''moshav'' (a collective village) where he was raised. Following his death, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi [[Menachem M. Schneerson]], arranged that the yearlong memorial service of [[kaddish]] be recited in honor of Dayan.<ref>''"Rebbe"'', Telushkin, Joseph. HarperCollins 2014, p. 135</ref> Dayan bequeathed his personal belongings to his bodyguard. In 2005, his eye patch was offered for sale on [[eBay]] with a starting bid of US$75,000.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4714385.stm |work=BBC News | title=Moshe Dayan's eye patch on sale | date=25 July 2005}}</ref>

Dayan was a complex character; his opinions were never strictly black and white. He had few close friends; his mental brilliance and charismatic manner were combined with cynicism and lack of restraint. [[Ariel Sharon]] noted about Dayan:

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He would wake up with a hundred ideas. Of them ninety-five were dangerous; three more had to be rejected; the remaining two, however, were brilliant.

He had courage amounting to insanity, as well as displays of a lack of responsibility. I would not say the same about his civil courage. Once Ben Gurion had asked me—what do I think of the decision to appoint Dayan as the Minister of Agriculture in his government. I said that it is important that Dayan sits in every government because of his brilliant mind—but never as prime minister. Ben Gurion asked: "why not as prime minister?". I replied then: "because he does not accept responsibility".<ref>Landau, E. (6 September 2002). "Libya is becoming the first country to attain weapons of mass destruction". ''Tel Aviv'', pp. 45–51</ref>
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In 1969, during an address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Dayan regretted the fact that students are unfamiliar with the Arab villages that once inhabited the land:<ref>{{Cite journal |last=נוימן |first=בעז |date=2001-10-01 |title=משה דיין, הכיבוש הנאור והתודעה |journal=פנים – תרבות חברה וחינוך |volume=18}}</ref> "We came to this country which was already populated by Arabs, and we are establishing... a Jewish state here. In considerable areas of the country we bought the lands from the Arabs. Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist; not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahalal arose in the place of Mahalul, Gevat – in the place of Jibta, Sarid - in the place of Haneifs and Kefar Yehoshua - in the place of Tell Shaman. There is no one place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Said |first1=Edward |title=The Question of Palestine |date=1992 |publisher=New York: Vintage Books |isbn=9780099967804}}</ref>

Dayan combined a [[kibbutz]]nik's secular identity and pragmatism with a deep love and appreciation for the [[Hebrew Bible]],<ref>The following citation gives an example for his combination of these different views: "'there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few'. (1 Sam. 14:6) ... The Lord can save even with a few, but these few need strong arms and legs". (Dayan, Moshe (1978) ''Living with the Bible''. [[Weidenfeld %26 Nicolson]]. {{ISBN|0-297-77528-6}}. p. 157.)</ref> the [[Jewish people]] and the [[land of Israel]]—but not an orthodox religious identification. In one recollection, having seen [[rabbi]]s flocking on the [[Temple Mount]] shortly after Jerusalem was captured in 1967, he asked, "What is this? The Vatican?" Dayan later ordered to give administrative control of the [[Temple Mount]] over to the [[Waqf]], a Muslim council.<ref>{{cite web |title=Israel caught in a trap of its own making |url=https://www.jpost.com/opinion/israel-caught-in-a-trap-of-its-own-making-500838 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |date=26 July 2017 |access-date=2 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= Religious Israelis divided on the Temple Mount |url=https://thecjn.ca/news/international/cover-story-religious-israelis-divided-temple-mount/ |website=The Canadian Jewish News |access-date=2 September 2023 |date=17 November 2014}}</ref>

[[File:-7000 Horvat Duma Mask 01 Tahunian Culture Israel Museum Jerusalem anagoria.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Pre-Pottery Neolithic B]] [https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/334459 Mask, acquired by Dayan from ''Hirbat Duma''], presently in [[Israel Museum]]]]

Dayan was an author and described himself as an amateur [[Archeology|archaeologist]], the latter hobby leading to significant controversy, as his amassing of historical artifacts, often with the help of his soldiers, seemed to be in breach of a number of laws. [[Yigael Yadin]] remarked after one incident: "I know who did it, and I am not going to say who it is, but if I catch him, I'll poke out his other eye, too." Some of his activities in this regard, whether illegal digging, looting of sites or commerce of antiquities, have been detailed by R. Kletter from the [[Israel Antiquities Authority]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jhsonline.org/Articles/article_27.pdf |title=PDF |access-date=2 December 2013 |archive-date=3 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203023326/http://www.jhsonline.org/Articles/article_27.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

American science-fiction writer [[Poul Anderson]] published his novel ''[[Dominic Flandry|Ensign Flandry]]'' at the time when Moshe Dayan's international renown and admiration for him in Israel were at their highest. The far-future Galactic Empire described in the book includes a planet called "Dayan", inhabited by Jews.