Curriculum Vitae

 Maj. General (Res.) Uzi Dayan

Maj. Gen. Dayan was born in 1948 and grew up in the agricultural community of Moshav Hayogev, in Israel's Yizrael Valley.

He was inducted into the IDF in 1966, volunteering for an Elite unit where he first served as an enlisted man, seeing combat during the War of Attrition and subsequently returned to his unit as commander of a combat team. At the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur War he commanded one of the companies in the unit and was subsequently appointed executive officer.

In 1978 Maj. Gen. Dayan was transferred to the Armored corps and served as an armored battalion commander of the above mentioned Elite unit. During the 1982 war in Lebanon, he fought with an armored brigade. In 1983 he served as an armored brigade commander of both a reserve and a regular division. He also served as the commander of the IDF Battalion Commander Course.

In 1993 Maj. Gen. Dayan was appointed Head of the Planning Branch of the IDF General staff. In this position he headed the Israeli security committee to the peace negotiation with the Jordanians, Palestinian and Syrians. He also served as Senior Liaison Officer to the Jordanian Forces.

At the beginning of 1996 Maj. Dayan was appointed commander of the Central Command and later on served as deputy Chief of the General Staff until 2000.

Maj. Gen. Dayan served for two years as chairman of N.S.C. and the National Security Adviser.

In the last two years he is also chairman of the Forum for National Responsibility and the president of the Zionist Council in Israel.

He holds a B.SC. degree in Mathematics and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and M.SC. degree in operations research from Stanford University in U.S.A..