David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

astonishing victory in the 1967 Six-Day
War—also wrote an essay on the story
of David and Goliath. According to
Dayan, “David fought Goliath not with
inferior but (on the contrary) with
superior weaponry; and his greatness
consisted not in his being willing to go
out into battle against someone far
stronger than he was. But in his knowing
how to exploit a weapon by which a
feeble person could seize the advantage
and become stronger.”