14 Facts About Yigal Alon

Yigal Alon served as one of the leaders of Ahdut HaAvoda party and the Israeli Labor party, and briefly as acting Prime Minister of Israel in 1969 - the first native born prime minister.

Yigal Alon was a Knesset member and government minister from the third Knesset to the ninth inclusive.

Yigal Alon's mother, Haia Shortz-Peikowitz, came from a religious family from Safed, and her father was a founding member of Rosh Pinna.

When Yigal Alon was five years old, his mother passed away and his older brothers went their own path.

When Yigal Alon reached age 13 and a Bar mitzvah was held, his father gave him a gun and sent him to protect farm crops from thieves.

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In 1934, aged 16, Yigal Alon began learning in Kadoorie Agricultural High School, where he first admitted to the ideals of the Labor movement with its Socialist and Zionist base.

Yigal Alon's teachers came with the attitude of expanding horizons and encourage him to close gaps in his education relative to other classmates.

Yigal Alon became known for the ambushes he planned for gangs that infiltrated the settlements.

Yigal Alon became a prominent leader 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 Alon 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 Alon held office until 17 March 1969, when Golda Meir took over after being elected leader of the Labor Party.

Yigal Alon became the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Culture in Meir's government, and served in that post until 1974.

Yigal Alon became the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1974 and held this post until 1977.

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