Background
Nephew of Moshe Dayan, Grandson of Shmuel Dayan and cousin of Assi Dayan, Yael Dayan and Yehonatan Geffen. His father, Zorik, was killed in the Battle of Ramat Yohanan in April of the year he was born.
Nephew of Moshe Dayan, Grandson of Shmuel Dayan and cousin of Assi Dayan, Yael Dayan and Yehonatan Geffen. His father, Zorik, was killed in the Battle of Ramat Yohanan in April of the year he was born.
Stanford University; Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He is the nephew of General Moshe Dayan. His mother Mimi remarried in March 1950 after having met Moshe Rabinovitch in Rome the previous summer, and they would go on to have two children of their own, Dan (b 1951) and Michal (b 1956). Dayan was raised in HaYogev, joined the army, and spent 15 years in the Sayeret Matkal.
He and his party later joined Likud in mid-2008.
Dayan was an undergraduate at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied under Robert Aumann and received a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and physics. He subsequently studied at Stanford University, earning an Master of Science in operations research.