What was the birthday of the former President of Israel whose resignation resulted in the 2000 election?
Israeli presidential election, 2000 Elections for the President of Israel were held in the Knesset on 31 July 2000, following Ezer Weizman's resignation. Moshe Katsav, a prominent Likud politician, ran against Shimon Peres, a previous Prime Minister of Israel. In a surprising upset, the Knesset elected Katsav, by 63 to 57. Katsav assumed office as President on 1 August 2000. He was the first President of Israel to have been sworn in for a seven-year term, as well as the first candidate from the right-wing Likud party to be elected to the office.
Moshe Dayan Moshe Dayan (Hebrew: משה דיין‎ ‎ ; 20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. He was the second child born on the first kibbutz, but he moved with his family in 1921, and he grew up on a moshav (farming cooperative). As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–58) during the 1956 Suez Crisis, but mainly as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became to the world a fighting symbol of the new state of Israel. In the 1930s he was trained by Orde Wingate to set traps for Palestinian-Arabs fighting the British and lost an eye in a raid on Vichy forces in Lebanon. Dayan was close to David Ben-Gurion and joined him in setting up Rafi in 1965 with Shimon Peres. They eventually rejoined Mapai (the fore-runner of the Israel Labor Party) becoming Defence Minister in the 1967 Six-Day War and the 1973 Yom Kippur war. Dayan was blamed for the lack of preparedness in 1973 and in 1976, following the election of Menachem Begin as Prime Minister, Dayan left the Labor Party and joined the Likud as Foreign Minister, playing an important part in negotiating the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.