Yigal Alon
| Yigal Allon | |
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| Date of birth | 10 October 1918 |
| Place of birth | Kfar Tavor, Palestine |
| Date of death | 29 February 1980 (aged 61) |
| Knessets | 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1955–1965 | Ahdut HaAvoda |
| 1965–1968 | Alignment |
| 1968–1969 | Labor Party |
| 1969–1980 | Alignment |
| Ministerial roles | |
| 1961–1968 | Minister of Labour |
| 1968–1969 | Minister of Immigrant Absorption |
| 1968–1977 | Deputy Prime Minister |
| 1969 | Interim Prime Minister |
| 1969–1974 | Minister of Education and Culture |
| 1974–1977 | Minister of Foreign Affairs |
Yigal Allon (Hebrew: יגאל אלון; born 10 October 1918 – died 29 February 1980) was an Israeli politician, a commander of the Palmach, and a general in the IDF. He served as one of the leaders of Ahdut HaAvoda party and the Israeli Labor party, and acting Prime Minister of Israel. He was a Knesset member and government minister from the third Knesset to the ninth inclusive.
Yigal Peikowitz (later Allon) was born in Kfar Tavor. His father immigrated to Palestine in 1890.
After graduating from Kadoorie Agricultural High School in 1937, Allon became one of the founders of Kibbutz Ginosar. Allon was married to Ruth. Their eldest daughter Nurit, was on the Autism spectrum.
In 1950-1952, he studied philosophy and history at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Allon died of heart failure in Afula on 29 February 1980. He was buried on the shore of Sea of Galilee in the cemetery of Kibbutz Ginosar (Kibbutz Ginosar Cemetery) in the Northern District. The funeral was attended by tens of thousands of mourners, with condolences extended by many world leaders, including Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.
Allon joined Haganah in 1931 and went on to commanded a field unit and then a mobile patrol in northern Palestine during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. During this period he participated in several operations of the Special Night Squads (SNS), under the command of Orde Charles Wingate and H. E. N. Bredin. In 1941 he became one of the founding members of the Palmach. In 1941 and 1942, he was a scout with the British forces who fought in Syria and Lebanon. In 1945, he became Commander in Chief of the Palmach.
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