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Photo Credit: Tomer Neuberg / FLASH90 Ruth Dayan at the memorial for her son, Director Assi Dayan, May 5, 2015. Ruth Dayan at the memorial for her son, Director Assi Dayan, May 5, 2015. Social activist Ruth Dayan passed away early Friday morning at the age of 103. She was the first wife of Chief of Staff and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, and founder of the fashion and textile company Maskit and the charity Variety Israel. Ruth Schwartz was born in Haifa in 1917, the daughter of Jewish newcomers in the Second Aliyah. Her sister, Reuma, married Ezer Weizman, founder and chief of the Israel Air Force, Defense Minister, and President. Ruth married Moshe Dayan in 1935 and divorced him in 1971. They had three children: Yael Dayan, a former Knesset member and Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv; Ehud (Udi) Dayan, a writer; and Asaf “Assi” Dayan, an actor and filmmaker.

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