Yosef Dayan (born Mexico in 1945) is the author of several books in Hebrew, Spanish and Italian. He also worked to translate modern Spanish literature into Hebrew.[1]
Yosef Dayan emigrated to Israel in 1968 and became a member of the right wing Kach movement. Some Jewish genealogists consider him to be a patrilinear descendant of King David and thus a "prince" or Nassi of the ancient Davidic royal line. Yosef Dayan is the founder of Malchut Israel, a right wing royalist political party in Israel advocating a return of the monarchy. In 2004 he became the seventy-first member of the newly reconstituted Sanhedrin, a duplicate of the religious tribunal which convened during the time of the Second Temple. This grouping usually had just seventy members plus the Jewish monarch as the seventy-first. [2] [3] He has also achieved certain notoriety for his alleged central participation in so-called "death curse" ceremonies or Pulsa diNura aimed at Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon. These curses were presumably to request divine retribution after those former Prime Minister's advocated Israeli withdrawal from certain areas considered by some as inalienable parts of the promised land. Incidentally, Yitzhak Rabin was murdered soon after the first curse and Ariel Sharon left in a persistent vegetative state after a brain haemorrhage following the second. [4]
He has a son named Hananel Dayan.