 He was a close friend of Amos Yarkoni, an Arab officer in the Israel Defense Forces, At the time, the Military Commander commented that ""if Moshe Dayan could be the Ramatkal (Chief of General Staff) without an eye, we can have a Battalion Commander with a prosthetic hand"" 

At the end on 1951, Dayan attended a course at the British Army's Senior Officers' School in Devizes, England.In May 1952, he was appointed operational commander of the Northern Command.The year 1952 was a time of economic crisis for the new state.