Can’t pin that just on Dayan. PM Levi Eshkol made the decision, and field commander Uzi Narkiss halted the plan to blow up the mosque on the Mount as it was being used for command-and-control and sniper fire.
The socialist establishment in Israel then, as now, wants as little to do with traditional Judaism as possible. Thus the placing of Jewish sites under Muslim control.
“The socialist establishment in Israel then, as now, wants as little to do with traditional Judaism as possible.”
A bit of history disturbs my morning coffee & thinking time. Golda Meier was an American from Chicago, and a de facto communist.
Israel has shot itself in the foot when it was established as a socialist nation.
If G*d exists, perhaps Israel’s socialism may find less theological support than Golda assumed?