The Allon Plan is an historic proposal to end the Israeli occupation of the West Bank with a negotiated partition of territories between the Jewish State and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It is named after its chief proponent, Yigal Allon. The plan calls for Israeli occupation of one third of the West Bank, predominantly a strip of land running up from the Jordan Valley to the eastern slopes of the West Bank hill ridge. The aim of the plan was to provide Israel with a measure of strategic depth without controlling the Palestinian population centres. In effect, the plan gives Israel control of the Jordan River and scarce water resources. A "conspiracy theory" is that the disengagement in the Gaza Strip in 2005 was initiated to focus more military power on the West Bank, in accordance with the Allon Plan The term Jewish state is sometimes used to describe the State of Israel and refers to its status as a nation-state for the Jewish people. ... Yigal Allon (October 10, 1918- February 29, 1980) was a famous Israeli Labour Party statesman. ...