Editing Moshe Dayan (section)

==Military==
[[File:Sadeh 1938.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Dayan (left) with [[Yitzhak Sadeh]] and [[Yigal Allon]], Kibbutz [[Hanita]], 1938]]
At the age of 14, Dayan joined the Jewish defence force [[Haganah]]. In 1938, he joined the British-organised irregular [[Jewish Supernumerary Police|Supernumerary Police]] and led a small motorized patrol ("MAN"). One of his military heroes was the British pro-[[Zionist]] intelligence officer [[Orde Wingate]], under whom he served in several [[Special Night Squads]] operations.
On 3 October 1939, he was the commanding instructor for Haganah Leader's courses held at [[Yavniel]] when two British [[Palestine Police]] officers discovered a quantity of illegal rifles. Haganah HQ ordered the camp evacuated. Leading a group of 43 men through [[Al-Bira, Baysan|Wadi Bira]], early the following morning, 12 to 15 Arab members of the [[Transjordan Frontier Force]] arrested them. Questions were asked about how such a large force was arrested by a much smaller one. [[Moshe Carmel]], the group's deputy commander, was also critical of Dayan's willingness to talk to his interrogators in [[Acre Prison]]. On 30 October 1939, most of the group were sentenced to 10 years in prison. Seven months later, Dayan was replaced as the prisoners' representative after it was discovered that moves were being made to get him an individual pardon. On 16 February 1941, after [[Chaim Weizmann]]'s intervention in London, they were all released.<ref>[[Shabtai Teveth|Teveth, Shabtai]] (1974) ''Moshe Dayan. The soldier, the man, the legend.'' Quartet Books. {{ISBN|0-7043-1080-5}}. pp. 124–36.</ref>

Dayan was assigned to a small Australian-led reconnaissance task force, which also included fellow [[Palmach]] members and Arab guides,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bar-On |first1=Mordechai |title=Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero |date= 2012 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-18325-2 |pages=22–23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=82jzA4LcZuQC |language=en}}</ref> formed in preparation for the [[Syria-Lebanon campaign|Allied invasion of Syria and Lebanon]] and attached to the [[7th Division (Australia)|Australian 7th Division]]. Using his home [[kibbutz]] of [[Hanita]] as a forward base, the unit frequently infiltrated [[Vichy France|Vichy French]] [[Mandate of Lebanon|Lebanon]], wearing traditional Arab dress, on covert surveillance missions.