Editing Moshe Dayan (section)

===89th Battalion===
In June, he became the first commander of the [[89th Commando Battalion|89th Battalion]], part of [[Yitzhak Sadeh|Sadeh]]'s Armoured Brigade. His methods of recruiting volunteers from other army units, such as the [[Golani Brigade|Golani]] and [[Kiryati Brigade|Kiryati]] Brigades, provoked complaints from their commanders.<ref>Teveth. pp. 170–172.</ref> On 20 June 1948, two men from one of his companies were killed in a confrontation with [[Irgun]] members trying to bring weapons ashore from the [[Altalena]] at [[Kfar Vitkin]]. During [[Operation Danny]], he led his battalion in a brief raid through [[Lod]] in which nine of his men were killed. His battalion was then transferred to the south, where they captured [[Karatiya]], close to [[Al-Faluja|Faluja]] on 15 July. His withdrawal of his troops after only two hours, leaving a company from the [[Givati Brigade]] to face an Egyptian counterattack led to Givati Commander [[Shimon Avidan]] demanding that Dayan be disciplined. Chief of the General Staff [[Yigael Yadin]] instructed the military attorney general to proceed, but the case was dismissed.<ref>Teveth. p. 189.</ref>