General and defense minister
Moshe Dayan
Life
1915–1981
He entered the Old City in 1967 proclaiming a permanent return, then left office over the 1973 failure.
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Moshe Dayan entered the Old City and proclaimed that Israel had returned to what was holy in the land and would not part from it again. Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan were forced to resign over the Yom Kippur failure.