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Samuel Dayan

Shmuel Dayan was a Zionist activist and Mapai politician who served in the first three Knessets, from 1949 to 1959.

1891 to 1968Founding the moshav NahalalLeading the Moshav MovementMapai Knesset member, 1949 to 1959Father of Moshe Dayan

Born: 8 August 1891, Zhashkiv
Died: 11 August 1968, Nahalal
Occupation: politician, writer
Party: Mapai, The Young Worker

Samuel Dayan was born in 1891 in Zhashkiv

Shmuel Dayan was born in 1891 in Zhashkiv, in the Russian Empire, today in Ukraine. His parents were Rabbi Avraham HaLevi Dayan and Haya Kitaigorodsky. He joined the Zionist movement as a boy and moved to the Land of Israel in 1908, during the Second Aliyah.

From 1908 to 1911 he worked in farming in Petah Tikva, Rehovot, Yavne'el and Kinneret. In 1911 he became active in Hapoel Hatzair and joined Degania. There he married Dvora, and their son Moshe was born.

In 1920 he was a delegate to the founding convention of the Histadrut. In 1921 he left Degania and, with his wife, helped found the moshav Nahalal. He was one of the heads of the Moshav Movement and went on missions to Poland and the United States.

In 1949 he was elected to the First Knesset for Mapai and served until 1959, including as Deputy Speaker. He was not elected to the Fourth Knesset. He died in 1968 and was buried in Nahalal, and his descendants include Moshe, Yael, Uzi and Assi Dayan.