The Israeli general and statesman Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) served as minister of defense of Israel, beginning in 1967. Moshe Dayan was born in the kibbutz of Degania, Palestine, in 1915. His father Samuel, a farmer, was a founder of Degania and Nahalal...

He was a flawed titan, and after decades of achievement his people chose to remember only the flaws. Starting his career as a modern-day Joshua, acclaimed for vanquishing Israel's enemies on every side, he finished it like Jeremiah, rejected and hated for urging...

Moshe Dayan. Martin Van Creveld. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. [pounds sterling]14.99. 223 pages. ISBN 0-297-84669-8. Moshe Dayan is the ultimate icon of Israel's heroic age. His Zionist credentials were impeccable. He grew up as a kibbutznik in the Galil, the son of swamp-draining...

Forty years after it defeated three Arab armies in six days, Israel's army is still trying to figure out how a war with a small guerrilla group in Lebanon last summer dragged on for five weeks and ended in a painful stalemate.Part of the answer,...

Israel's Supreme Court has delayed a widely criticized plea bargain that dropped the threat of rape charges and jail time against the former president, giving the state until Monday afternoon to defend the deal.Under the agreement signed last week, Moshe Katsav would confess to indecent...