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Yaël Dayan ( Hebrew :    , born 12 February 1939 ) is an Israeli politician and author . She served as a member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2003 , and from 2008 to 2013 was the chair of Tel Aviv city council . Her service on the city council ended with the 2013 election . She is the daughter of Moshe Dayan and sister of Assi Dayan . Menachem Begin (" Menaem Begin ", ; " Menakhem Volfovich Begin "; 16 August 1913  9 March 1992 ) was an Israeli politician , founder of ___MASK54___ and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel . Before the creation of the state of Israel , he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun , the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah . He proclaimed a revolt , on 1 February 1944 , against the British mandatory government , which was opposed by the Jewish Agency . As head of the Irgun , he targeted the British in Palestine . Later , the Irgun fought the Arabs during the 1947  48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine . The Knesset (; lit . " the gathering " or " assembly "; "") is the unicameral national legislature of Israel . As the legislative branch of the Israeli government , the Knesset passes all laws , elects the President and Prime Minister ( although the latter is ceremonially appointed by the President ), approves the cabinet , and supervises the work of the government . In addition , the Knesset elects the State Comptroller . It also has the power to waive the immunity of its members , remove the President and the State Comptroller from office , dissolve the government in a constructive vote of no confidence , and to dissolve itself and call new elections . The Prime Minister may dissolve the Knesset . However , until an election is completed , the Knesset maintains authority in its current composition . The Knesset is located in Givat Ram , Jerusalem . Asaf " Assi " Dayan ( 23 November 1945  1 May 2014 ) was an Israeli film director , actor , screenwriter , and producer . The Suez Crisis , also named the Tripartite Aggression ( in the Arab world ) and the Kadesh Operation or Sinai War ( in Israel ), was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel , followed by the United Kingdom and France . The aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser from power . After the fighting had started , political pressure from the United States , the Soviet ___MASK7___ , and the United Nations led to a withdrawal by the three invaders . The episode humiliated Great Britain and France and strengthened Nasser . The Six - Day War ( Hebrew : , " Milhemet Sheshet Ha Yamim "; Arabic : , " an - Naksah ", " The Setback " or , " arb 1967 ", " War of 1967 "), also known as the June War , 1967 Arab  Israeli War , or Third Arab  Israeli War , was fought between June 5 and 10 , 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt ( known at the time as the United Arab ___MASK38___ ), Jordan , and Syria . Israel , officially known as the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East , on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the ___MASK91___ Sea . It has land borders with Lebanon to the north , Syria to the northeast , Jordan on the east , the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the east and west , respectively , and Egypt to the southwest . The country contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area . Israel ' s financial and technology center is Tel Aviv , while its seat of government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem , although the state ' s sovereignty over the city of Jerusalem is internationally unrecognized . ___MASK54___ ( translit . " HaLikud ", lit . " The Consolidation "), officially the ___MASK54___  National Liberal Movement , is a major center - right to right - wing political party in Israel . A secular party , it was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right - wing and liberal parties . ___MASK54___ ' s landslide victory in the 1977 elections was a major turning point in the country ' s political history , marking the first time ___MASK55___ had lost power . In addition , it was the first time in Israel that a right - wing party won the plurality of the votes . However , after ruling the country for most of the 1980s , the party lost the Knesset election in 1992 . Nevertheless , ___MASK54___ ' s candidate Benjamin Netanyahu did win the vote for Prime Minister in 1996 and was given the task of forming a government after the 1996 elections . Netanyahu ' s government fell apart after a vote of no confidence , which led to elections being called in 1999 and ___MASK54___ losing power to the One Israel coalition led by Ehud Barak . Moshe Dayan ( 20 May 1915  16 October 1981 ) was an Israeli ___MASK36___ leader and politician . He was the second child born on the first kibbutz , but he moved with his family in 1921 , and he grew up on a moshav . As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab  Israeli War , chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces ( 1953  58 ) during the 1956 Suez Crisis , but mainly as Defense Minister during the Six - Day War in 1967 , he became to the world a fighting symbol of the new state of Israel . In the 1930 ' s he was trained by Orde Wingate to set traps for Palestinian - Arabs fighting the British and lost an eye in a raid on Vichy forces in Lebanon . Dayan was close to David Ben - Gurion and joined him in setting up Rafi in 1965 with Shimon Peres . They eventually rejoined Mapai ( the fore - runner of the Israel Labor Party ) becoming Defence Minister in the 1967 Six - Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur war . Dayan was blamed for the lack of preparedness in 1973 and in 1976 , following the election of Menachem Begin as Prime Minister , Dayan left the Labor Party and joined the Likud as Foreign Minister , playing an important part in negotiating the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel . A film director is a person who directs the making of a film . Generally , a film director controls a film ' s artistic and dramatic aspects , and visualizes the script while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision . The director has a key role in choosing the cast members , production design , and the creative aspects of filmmaking . Under European ___MASK7___ law , the director is viewed as the author of the film . ___MASK87___ ( an acronym for : "", lit . " ___MASK78___ of the Land of Israel ") was a centre - left political party in Israel , and was the dominant force in Israeli politics until its merger into the modern - day ___MASK30___ in 1968 . During ___MASK87___ ' s time in office , a wide range of progressive reforms were carried out , as characterised by the establishment of a welfare state , providing minimum income , security , and free ( or almost free ) access to housing subsidies and health and social services . The Israel Defense Forces ( IDF " lit ." " The Army of Defense for Israel "), commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew acronym " Tzahal ", are the ___MASK36___ forces of the State of Israel . They consist of the ground forces , air force , and navy . It is the sole ___MASK36___ wing of the Israeli security forces , and has no civilian jurisdiction within Israel . The IDF is headed by its Chief of General Staff , the " Ramatkal ", subordinate to the Defense Minister of Israel ; Lieutenant general (" Rav Aluf ") Gadi Eizenkot has served as Chief of Staff since 2015 . Egypt (; ', , " Kimi "), officially the Arab ___MASK38___ of Egypt , is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula . Egypt is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast , the Gulf of Aqaba to the east , the ___MASK91___ Sea to the east and south , Sudan to the south , and Libya to the west . Across the Gulf of Aqaba lies Jordan , and across from the Sinai Peninsula lies Saudi Arabia , although Jordan and Saudi Arabia do not share a land border with Egypt . It is the world ' s only contiguous Afrasian nation . The 1948 Arab  Israeli War or the First Arab  Israeli War was fought between the State of Israel and a ___MASK36___ coalition of Arab states , forming the second stage of the 1948 Palestine war .