and Dvora Dayan, Ukrainian Jewish immigrants from Zhashkiv.

Dayan was the first child actually born at Degania; Gideon Baratz (1913-1988) had been born in Tiberias. He was named Moshe after Moshe Barsky, the first member of Degania to be killed in an Arab attack, who died getting medication for Dayan's father. Soon afterward, Dayan's parents moved to Nahalal, the first moshav,