Shmuel Dayan (; 8 August 1891 – 11 August 1968) was a

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activist during the British Mandate of Palestine and an

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i politician who served in the first three

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Biography

Born in the town of

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in the

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(today in

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), he joined the Zionist movement as a boy and emigrated to Palestine, then under Ottoman rule, in 1908. He worked in agriculture in

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and Kinneret until 1911, when he became active in

Hapoel Hatzair Hapoel Hatzair (, "The Young Worker") was a Zionist group active in Palestine from 1905 until 1930. It was founded by A.D. Gordon, Yosef Aharonovich, Yosef Sprinzak and followed a non-Marxist, Zionist, socialist agenda. Hapoel Hatzair was a ...

(the Young Workers Party). He was also one of the earliest settlers in Degania, the country's first

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, though he left in 1921 to help establish the

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. According to his grandson, he, as opposed to his wife Devorah (Dvora Zotolovsky 1890-1956, born in Prochorovska, Ukraine), never personally worked more than 2 weeks at the kibbutz, but spent most of his life in hotels.

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'My hate crime against the Dayan dynasty,'

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, 18 May 2014. As one of the leaders of the nascent Moshav Movement, he made several trips to the

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and

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as a Zionist emissary. In 1949, he was elected to the First Knesset for the

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party, and served as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset. In 1951, he used his official Service Passport to travel abroad, mainly to the US, on official meetings. He continued as a member of the next two Knessets, until 1959. Dayan died in 1968 and was buried in Nahalal Cemetery. He was the father of Israeli general and politician

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and the grandfather of politicians Yael Dayan,

Uzi Dayan Aluf (Major General, res.) Uzi Dayan (; born January 4, 1948) is a former general in the Israel Defense Forces and an Israeli politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for Likud from 2020 to 2021. Biography Uzi Dayan is a nephew of Moshe ...

and director

Assi Dayan Assaf "Assi" Dayan (; 23 November 1945 – 1 May 2014) was an Israeli film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. Life Dayan was the youngest son of Israeli general and defense minister Moshe Dayan and peace activist Ruth Dayan (née Sch ...

. File:נהלל - מר שמואל דיין-JNF010263.jpeg, Shmuel Dayan 1920 File:עמק יזרעאל - 25 שנה להתישבות בעמק - הזוג דיין ונכדתם - מראשוני נהלל-JNF023765.jpeg, Shmuel Dayan with wife, parents & daughter 1946

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