Chief-Supt. Moshe Dayan

Mar 2, 2002 - The bullet-ridden body of Jerusalem police detective Chief-Supt. Moshe Dayan, 46, of Ma'aleh Adumim, was discovered next to his trail motorcycle, near the Mar Saba Monastery in the Judean Desert.

Dayan loved trail motorcycles and jeep tours. He went riding in the Judean Desert almost every Shabbat with other motorcycle enthusiasts, and occasionally went on his own. He knew the desert well. Two members of the Jahalin Bedouin clan discovered Dayan's body at the bottom of the wadi and notified Border Police at the nearby roadblock.

His daughter said, "My father was a great person. The best dad there is. Yesterday morning he went for a ride on his bike, like he always does on Saturday. He was supposed to return in the afternoon. When he didn't return we began to worry, and at night we heard that a body had been found. We immediately knew it was dad. He wasn't afraid of anything."

Moshe Dayan worked as a police officer for 23 years, for the last three years heading the Information and Detective Bureau in the Zion district. In this capacity, he investigated the lynching of Yosef Avrahami and Vadim Norzhich in Ramallah on October 12, 2000. He obtained information about the perpetrators, leading to their arrest.

He was a brave man, was patient, quiet, and modest, doing his job quietly and going home. He devoted most of his time and energy to his job as a detective.

Chief-Supt. Moshe Dayan Moshe Dayan was buried in the Israel Police section of the Mount Herzl cemetery. Dayan is survived by his wife, Eti, three children, Ofira (21), Rinat (17), and Gil (12), his mother, and six brothers and sisters.