Yigal Allon
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Yigal Allon (Hebrew: יגאל אלון) (October 10, 1918 - February 29, 1980), commander of the Palmach, one of the leaders of the Israel Labor Party, acting Prime Minister of Israel, member of Knesset and government minister from the tenth through the seventeenth Knessets.
Alon was born in Kfar Tavor and studied at the Kadoori Agricultural School. As a young man he joined the Jewish Settlement Police as a policeman. In 1937 he was one of the founding members of Kibbutz Ginnosar on the Sea of Galilee. At the same time he joined the FO'SH (Field Companies) of the Haganah.
He was an Israeli Labour Party statesman.
He served as:
- Minister of Labour (1961-1967),
- Deputy Prime Minister (1967-1974),
- Minister of Immigrant Absorption (1967-1969),
- Minister of Education and Culture (1969-1974), and
- Minister of Foreign Affairs (1974-1977).
He also served briefly as interim Prime Minister of Israel following the death of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol on February 26, 1969 to March 17, 1969 when Golda Meir became Prime Minister.
Allon was a senior commander in the Palmach and served as the architect of the Allon Plan, a proposal to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank with a negotiated partition of territories.
Yigal Allon's name is commonly given to an important road in the West Bank, leading north-eastwards from Jerusalem, named the Allon Road.
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| Preceded by: Zalman Aran | Education Minister of Israel 1969-1974 | Succeeded by: Aharon Yadlin |
| Preceded by: Levi Eshkol | Prime Minister of Israel- interim 1969 | Succeeded by: Golda Meir |
