Assaf Dayan, Moshe Dayan’s film actor son, thinks his father should resign from the government irrespective of whether or not he is found to have been responsible for Israel’s poor state of preparedness on the eve of the Yom Kippur War. Assaf took sharp issue with his sister, novelist Yael Dayan-Sion, who said Thursday in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in New York that she thought her father should not resign and that her brothers, Audi and Assaf share her feelings.
Assaf said that “Yael was not asked to represent the family…we do not come as a package deal: The family said this or the family said that. This is a serious question and everyone has his own ideas,” he said in an interview published today in Maariv. The young actor, who will appear in the movie “Three Plus One,” now filming in the Eilat region, said he was “a Moked supporter,” referring to the left-wing Knesset faction headed by Meir Payil which Includes the former Maki Communist faction.
“I think that Dayan should resign, irrespective of whether he is found guilty or not guilty by the Agranat Committee (investigating the Yom Kippur War). in public life you are guilty unless otherwise proven. Moreover, in his own interests he should resign from this shameful government, the Defense Minister’s son declared.
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