Uzi Dayan (born 1948) is an Aluf

Aluf

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 (res.) in the Israel Defense Forces

Israel Defense Forces

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 and an Israeli

Israel

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 politician. He is the nephew of General Moshe Dayan

Moshe Dayan

Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader and politician. The fourth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces , he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new State of Israel...

.

Early life and career

Nephew of Moshe Dayan

Moshe Dayan

Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader and politician. The fourth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces , he became a fighting symbol to the world of the new State of Israel...

, Grandson of Shmuel Dayan

Shmuel Dayan

Shmuel Dayan was a Zionist activist during the British Mandate of Palestine and an Israeli politician who served in the first three Knessets.-Biography:...

 and cousin of Assi Dayan

Assi Dayan

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, Yael Dayan

Yael Dayan

Yaël Dayan is an Israeli politician and author. She served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2003, and is currently the chair of Tel Aviv city council. She is the daughter of Moshe Dayan and sister of Assi Dayan.-Biography:...

 and Yehonatan Geffen

Yehonatan Geffen

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.his own father, Zorik, was killed in the Battle of Ramat Yohanan in April of the year he was born. His mother Mimi remarried in March 1950 after having met Moshe Rabinovitch in Rome

Rome

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 the previous summer, and they would go on to have two children of their own, Dan (b. 1951) and Michal (b. 1956). Dayan was raised in HaYogev

HaYogev

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, joined the army, and spent 15 years in the Sayeret Matkal

Sayeret Matkal

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. He eventually commanded the unit, served as head of Central Command, Deputy Chief of Staff, and headed the Israeli National Security Council

Israeli National Security Council

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 (2003-2005) before forming the Tafnit

Tafnit

Tafnit was an Israeli political party and a social movement which was established by the Aluf in reserve Uzi Dayan. The party participated in the 2006 elections, although did not gain any seats.-History:Tafnit was established as a social movement...

 party to run in the 2006 legislative elections. He and his party later joined Likud

Likud

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 in mid-2008.

Family and education

Dayan was an undergraduate at Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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, where he studied under Robert Aumann

Robert Aumann

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 and received a B.Sc.

Bachelor of Science

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 in mathematics and physics. He subsequently studied at Stanford University

Stanford University

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, earning an M.Sc.

Master of Science

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in operations research. Dayan has a wife Tamar and three children.