Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Shaul Mofaz, Ehud Barak, Dan Halutz, Rafael Eitan, Moshe Ya'alon, David Elazar, Gabi Ashkenazi, Benny Gantz, Yigael Yadin, Haim Laskov, Haim Bar-Lev, Mordechai Gur, Tzvi Tzur, Mordechai Maklef, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Yaakov Dori, Dan Shomron, Chief of General Staff, Moshe Levi. Excerpt: Moshe Dayan (Hebrew: 20 May 1915 - 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. The fourth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953-58), he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new State of Israel. He went on to become Defense Minister and later Foreign Minister of Israel. Dayan with Yitzhak Sadeh and Yigal Allon, Kibbutz Hanita, 1938Moshe Dayan was born on Kibbutz Degania Alef near the shores of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) in pre-Mandate Palestine. His parents were Shmuel and Devorah, Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. He was the second child to be born on the kibbutz (after Gideon Baratz). He was named Moshe after Moshe Barsky, the first member of the kibbutz to be killed in an Arab attack. Soon after, his parents moved to Nahalal, the first Moshav to be established. He attended the Agricultural School there. At the age of 14, he joined the newly formed Jewish militia known as the Haganah. In 1938 he joined the Palestine Supernumerary Police and became a motorized patrol ("MAN") commander. One of his military heroes was the British pro-Zionist 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 to be evacuated. Leading a group of 43 men through Wadi Bira, early the following morning, they were arrested by 12 to 15 Arab...