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Yigal Allon (Hebrew: יגאל אלון ; 10 October 1918 – 29 February 1980) was an Israeli military leader and politician. He was a commander of the Palmach and a general in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
Yigal Allon was an Israeli soldier and politician who was best known as the architect of the Allon Plan, a peace initiative that he formulated after Israel captured Arab territory in the Six-Day War of June 1967.
Yigal Allon was an Israeli military commander, statesman and among the leaders of the Labor movement. Allon (born October 10, 1918; died February 29, 1980) was born in Kfar Tavor in pre-State Israel. His father had immigrated to Palestine in 1890.
Yigal Allon, who died Friday at the age of 61, was one of the giants of the younger leadership that founded the State of Israel and governed it for most of its existence.
May 1, 2017 · I had the great honor of working with Yigal Allon (1918-1980) – the man who had been appointed commander of the Palmah at the age of 27 and was one of the heroes of the War of Independence at...
Yigal Allon left his mark as a military commander, a statesman, and one of the leaders of the Labor movement. 1936-39 Commander of one of the field units of the Haganah
Date of Birth: October 10, 1918 Place of Birth: Kfar Tavor, Israel Date of death: February 29, 1980. Education: Allon studied at the Kadoori Agricultural High School and the Hebrew University. In 1960 he went to Oxford to study at St. Anthony’s College of Oxford University.
Yigal Allon (Peikowitz) was born on October 10, 1918, in the village of Tavor (Masha), to his parents Chaya and Reuven Peikovich, who were among the settlers of Rosh Pina and the founders of Kfar Tavor. From childhood, Yigal worked on his father's farm and was aware of the colony's guarding and security issues.
At the end of the Israeli War of Independence, no military leader was better known than Yigal Allon. A former commander of the elite Palmach unit, Allon, a broad-shouldered sabra, coordinated...
On January 16, 1949, less than two weeks before new Israeli citizens elected their representatives to their newborn state, Yigal Allon, still in his military uniform, spoke to an assembly of thousands of citizens in Tel Aviv.
