Eli Dayan is an Israel

Israel

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i former politician who served as a member of the Knesset

Knesset

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 for the Alignment

Alignment (political party)

The Alignment was an alliance of the major left-wing parties in Israel between the 1960s and 1990s. It was established in 1965 as an alliance of Mapai and Ahdut HaAvoda but was dissolved three years later when the two parties and Rafi formally merged into the Israeli Labor Party...

 and Labor Party between 1988 and 1996, and as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel

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 from 1995 until 1996.

Biography

Born in El Kelaa des Sraghna

El Kelaa des Sraghna

El Kelaa des Sraghna alternative names include El Kelaa des Srarhna, al-Qalat-as-Saragnah and others) is a town in central Morocco. .The economy of the tows is mostly based on agriculture, the growing of olive tree being predominant.-History:...

, Morocco

Morocco

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 in 1949, Dayan made aliyah

Aliyah

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 to Israel in 1963. He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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, gaining an LLB.

He became mayor of Ashkelon

Ashkelon

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 in 1978, a role he held until 1991. He joined the new Tami

Tami

Tami was a Mizrahi-dominated political party in Israel during the 1980s. It was led by Aharon Abuhatzira for its entire existence.-Background:...

 party in 1981, and was fourth on the party's list for the 1981 Knesset elections

Israeli legislative election, 1981

Elections for the tenth Knesset were held in Israel on 30 June 1981. Despite last minute polls suggesting a victory for Shimon Peres's Alignment, Menachem Begin's Likud won by just one seat...

, but the party won only three seats. He was third on the list for the 1984 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1984

Elections for the eleventh Knesset were held in Israel on 23 July 1984. Voter turnout was 78.8%. The results saw the Alignment return to being the largest party in the Knesset, a status it had lost in 1977...

, but again failed to win a seat. After Tami merged into Likud

Likud

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, Dayan joined the Labor Party, and in 1988

Israeli legislative election, 1988

Elections for the twelfth Knesset were held in Israel on 1 November 1988. Voter turnout was 79.7%.-Results:1 Five members of the Likud left to form the Party for the Advancement of the Zionist Idea; after two returned, the party was renamed the New Liberal Party...

 he was elected to the Knesset on the Alignment list (of which the Labor Party was the major component). He was re-elected in 199

Israeli legislative election, 1992

Elections for the thirteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 23 June 1992. The result was a victory for the left, led by Yitzhak Rabin's Labor Party, though their win was at least partially due to several small right-wing parties narrowly failing to cross the electoral threshold and thus effectively...

, and was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Minister on 24 July 1995, replacing Yossi Beilin

Yossi Beilin

Dr. Yosef "Yossi" Beilin is a left-wing Israeli politician and a former Knesset member, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister and Justice Minister, representing both the Labor Party and Meretz-Yachad, of which he served as chairman between 2003 and 2006. He is best known for his involvement with the...

. He held the position until losing his seat in the 1996 elections

Israeli legislative election, 1996

Elections for the fourteenth Knesset were held in Israel on 29 May 1996. Voter turnout was 79.3%.The 1996 elections included two new changes, both designed to increase the stability of the Knesset. First, the Prime Minister was to be elected on a separate ballot from the remaining members of the...

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