Shmuel Dayan
Shmuel Dayan | |
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שמואל דיין | |
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Faction represented in the Knesset | |
1949–1959 | Mapai |
Personal details | |
Born | Zhashkiv, Russian Empire | August 8, 1891
Died | 11 August 1968 | (aged 77)
Resting place | Nahalal Cemetery |
Shmuel Dayan (Hebrew: שמואל דיין; 8 August 1891 – 11 August 1968) was a Zionist activist during the British Mandate of Palestine and an Israeli politician who served in the first three Knessets.
Biography
Born in the town of Zhashkiv in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine),[1] he joined the Zionist movement as a boy and emigrated to Palestine, then under Ottoman rule, in 1908. He worked in agriculture in Petah Tikva, Rehovot, Yavne'el and Kinneret until 1911,[2] when he became active in Hapoel Hatzair (the Young Workers Party). He was also one of the earliest settlers in Degania, the country's first kibbutz, though he left in 1921 to help establish the moshav Nahalal. 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.[3] As one of the leaders of the nascent Moshav Movement, he made several trips to the United States and Poland as a Zionist emissary.
In 1949, he was elected to the First Knesset for the Mapai 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.
Shmuel Dayan was the father of Israeli general and politician Moshe Dayan and the grandfather of politicians Yael Dayan, Uzi Dayan and director Assi Dayan.
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Shmuel Dayan 1920
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Shmuel Dayan with wife, parents & daughter 1946
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1951 Israel Service passport used by Shmuel Dayan
References
- ^ Shemuel Dayan Jewish Virtual Library
- ^ Tidhar, David (1947). "Shmuel Dayan" שמואל דיין. Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel (in Hebrew). Vol. 3. Estate of David Tidhar and Touro College Libraries. p. 1407.
- ^ Gideon Levy, 'My hate crime against the Dayan dynasty,' Haaretz, 18 May 2014.
External links
- Shmuel Dayan on the Knesset website
- 1891 births
- 1968 deaths
- People from Zhashkiv
- Dayan family
- Deputy Speakers of the Knesset
- Israeli people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
- Jewish Israeli politicians
- Jews from Mandatory Palestine
- Jews from Ottoman Palestine
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire
- Mapai politicians
- Members of the Assembly of Representatives (Mandatory Palestine)
- Members of the 1st Knesset (1949–1951)
- Members of the 2nd Knesset (1951–1955)
- Members of the 3rd Knesset (1955–1959)
- Ukrainian Jews
- Burials at Nahalal Cemetery
- Pioneers of Israel
- Immigrants of the Second Aliyah