30 Facts About Yigal Allon

Yigal Allon was an Israeli military leader and politician.

Yigal Allon was a commander of the Palmach and a general in the Israeli Defense Forces.

Yigal Allon was a leader of the Ahdut HaAvoda and Israeli Labor parties.

Yigal Allon served briefly as acting Prime Minister of Israel between the death of Levi Eshkol and the appointment of Golda Meir in 1969.

Yigal Allon was a government minister from the third Knesset to the ninth inclusive.

Yigal Allon commanded a squad and organized key operations in the Jewish Resistance Movement such as the Night of the Bridges.

Yigal Allon entered politics after a forced relief from command by then-Premier David Ben-Gurion.

Yigal Allon was one of the architects of the creation of the Labor Party, advocating for the merger of Ahdut HaAvoda with Mapai.

Yigal Allon took part in the Sinai Interim Agreement in 1975.

In 1980, Yigal Allon died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest while campaigning for the leadership of the Labor Party.

Yigal Allon's father was a founding member of Rosh Pinna.

When Yigal Allon was five years old, his mother died, and his older brothers left home.

In 1934, at the age of 16, Yigal Allon enrolled at the Kadoorie Agricultural High School.

Yigal Allon found his education lacking compared to his urban peers, and his teachers encouraged him to improve.

In 1945, Yigal Allon became Commander in Chief of the Palmach.

On June 22,1948, during David Ben-Gurion's confrontation with the Irgun over the distribution of weapons from the Altalena, Yigal Allon commanded the troops ordered to shell the vessel.

On October 18,1949, during an official visit to Paris, Yigal Allon was informed by his French hosts that Ben-Gurion had decided to replace him with Moshe Dayan as Operational Commander.

Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, leader of the rival governing Mapai party, told Yigal Allon to dissociate himself from Mapam, considering it too left-wing and a potential threat to the State of Israel's security.

From 1950 to 1952, Yigal Allon studied philosophy and history at St Antony's College, Oxford.

Yigal Allon became a key figure in Ahdut HaAvoda, which had split from Mapam in 1954, and was first elected to the Knesset in 1955, where he served until his death.

Yigal Allon was a member of the Economic Affairs Committee, Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, Education and Culture Committee, Joint Committee on the Motion for the Agenda Regarding Sports in Israel, and the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

Yigal Allon served as Israel's Labor Minister from 1961 to 1968, where he focused on improving the state employment service, expanding the road network, and promoting labor relations legislation.

In Meir's government, Yigal Allon served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Culture, a role he held until 1974.

In 1974, Yigal Allon was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, a position he held until 1977.

Yigal Allon was the architect of the Yigal Allon Plan, a proposal for a partial Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank after the Six-Day War, aiming to facilitate a negotiated partition of the territory.

Yigal Allon died of heart failure in Afula on 29 February 1980.

Yigal Allon was buried in the cemetery of Kibbutz Ginosar in the Northern District on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.

Yigal Allon extended a hand in peace, and that's the approach we want leaders to adopt today.

Yigal Allon married Ruth, who immigrated to Palestine from Germany in 1934, a year after the installment of the Machtergreifung.

Nurit was eventually institutionalized in Scotland, where Yigal Allon visited her once a year.