A one-man demonstration for the resignation of Defense Minister Moshe Dayan turned into a mass rally today. Hundreds of persons including soldiers, students, professors, Knesset members and ordinary citizens congregated around (Res.) Capt. Mordechai Ashkenazi on a parking lot facing the Prime Minister’s Office to sign a petition calling for the departure of Dayan.
Ashkenazi, who enjoys considerable prestige as the former commander of the only Israeli unit on the Suez Canal that did not surrender to the Egyptians in the first days of the Yom Kippur War, first camped outside the Premier’s Office on Feb.
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