who were legalized by the British Administration for defense purposes. Two years before, he had married.
During the Arab rebellion Dayan met a man who had an everlasting influence on him, a British Army officer named Charles Orde Wingate.
Wingate, then only a captain, was one of those unorthodox characters produced by the British Army from time to time, a latter-day T. E. Lawrence. But while Lawrence had embraced the Arabs, Wingate embraced the Hebrews. A great leader of men, who always carried his Bible in his pocket, he invented the technique of retaliation raids, conducted by small units of selected, highly trained men, who would penetrate during the night deep into Arab territory, strike at a remote Arab village, demolish a few houses, sometimes kill some people, and return home before daylight. He was a single-minded, devoted man, quite ruthless, who sometimes scandalized the socialist kibbutz members by striking soldiers who had neglected some minute detail of preparation for action. Wingate's doctrine had a long-lasting affect on the Haganah. It formed the nucleus of the tactics of Palmach, the shock troop of the Haganah formed a few years later, and was transmitted by it to the Israeli Army. By then, Wingate was dead, accidentally killed during World War II after playing a brilliant role as guerrilla leader during the liberation of Ethiopia and Burma and rising to the rank of majorgeneral. It is likely that Dayan's character was formed in conscious imitation of this man-a war lover and individualist with a cult of toughness, a superman.
In 1939 Dayan was an instructor in a Haganah course. Along with the members of the course, he was captured by the British police during an illegal field exercise, carrying arms. In a mass trial, which became notorious as "The Trial of the 43," he was sentenced to five years in prison. While serving in Acre Prison, an old Crusader castle, he was suddenly called by the British to take part in the