Israel’s Army Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan, may shortly shed his familiar black eye patch which covers an empty eye socket, it was learned today.
Gen. Dayan, who lost his eye in action against the Vichy French forces in Syria during World War II, has undergone the first stage of plastic surgery designed to build up the eye socket so that it will hold a false eye. There is every hope that the multi-stage operation will be successful and Gen. Dayan will drop his world-famous patch.
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