Yosef Alon, born Josef Placek, was an Israeli Air Force officer and military attache to the US who was shot and killed in the driveway of his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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Yosef Alon was then adopted by George and Jenny Davidson, a childless Christian couple.
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Yosef Alon then graduated from a vocational school, and then enlisted in the Czechoslovak Air Force, where he successfully completed a pilot course.
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Yosef Alon married Dvora Yosef Alon, a Jewish immigrant from Yemen, in January 1954.
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From August 1960 to August 1961 Yosef Alon served as a Mystere IV pilot and as Commander of the 101 Squadron, which was equipped with Mystere IV aircraft.
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In 1965, after attending a command and training course in England, Yosef Alon went on to head the Air Force safety industry.
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In 1970, then a colonel, Yosef Alon was chosen to be the assistant air and naval attache at Israel's Embassy in Washington, DC.
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Yosef Alon established close relationship with the American Jewish community, assisted with the activities of the United Jewish Appeal, and gave lectures to students on Israel's cause.
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At this moment Yosef Alon was shot in his chest five times with copper-jacketed military bullets by a foreign-made.
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Yosef Alon attempted with her 18-year-old daughter Dahlia to stem his bleeding with towels.
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Yosef Alon's family accepted President Richard Nixon's offer to repatriate Yosef Alon's body to Israel onboard an USAF C-137 Stratoliner.
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Yosef Alon is buried with full military honours at Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery.
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Dvora Yosef Alon died in 1995 without knowing the identity of her husband's killer.
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The historian Uri Milstein and Colonel Yakov Agassi presented a theory which said that Yosef Alon had been assassinated because he unwillingly learned about the conspiracy theory for the Yom Kippur War, which involved collusion between the US, Israel, and Egypt and was designed to allow entry for the US into the region as a "savior" for both Israel and Egypt by stopping the fighting after previously agreed-upon objectives had been achieved.