Yigal Allon (Hebrew: יגאל אלון; October 10, 1918- February 29, 1980) was an Israeli Labour Party statesman. Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world. ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... February 29 is the 60th day of a leap year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 306 days remaining. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Labour (העבודה HaAvoda) is an Israeli political party. ...

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 acting Prime Minister of Israel following the death of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in 1969. 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... There are currently two Deputy Prime-Ministers in the State of Israel. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Education Ministers of Israel, 1949 to present. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... Foreign Affair Ministers of Israel, 1948-present Moshe Sharett 1948-1956 Golda Meir 1956-1966 Abba Eban 1966-1974 Yigal Allon 1974-1977 Moshe Dayan 1977-1979 Menachem Begin 1979-1980 Yitzhak Shamir 1980-1986 Shimon Peres 1986-1988 Moshe Arens 1988-1990 David Levy 1990-1992 Shimon Peres 1992... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... ▶(?) (Hebrew לֵוִי אֶשְׁכּוֹל ) (Born Levi Skolnick) (Hebrew לֵוִי שְׁקוֹלְנִיק) (October 25, 1895 - February 26, 1969), was the third Prime Minister of Israel from 1963 until his death of a heart attack in 1969. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...

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. Palmach badge The Palmach (in Hebrew - פלמח ) was the regular fighting force of the Haganah (the underground army of Jewish settlers during the British Mandate of Palestine). ... 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. ...

Yigal Allon's name is commonly given to an important road in the West Bank, leading north-eastwards from Jerusalem, named the Allon Road. Jerusalem (Hebrew: Yerushalayim; Arabic: al-Quds; Greek Ιεροσόλυμα; Latin Aelia Capitolina) is an ancient Middle Eastern city on the watershed between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea at an elevation of 650-840 meters. ... The Allon Road is the name commonly given by Israelis to routes #578, #508, and #458 in the West Bank/Samaria, running roughly north-south between Mehola in the central Jordan Valley and east of Maale Adummim on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem. ...

External links

• Yigal Allon biography
• Yigal Allon on the Knesset site

Yigal Allon at the age of 7 years was already an acknowledged leader among children of Kfar Tabor, then called Mescha. My friend Yosef Argaman (Kibbutz Hanita)was a school-mate of Yigae'el Paikovitz (Yigal Allon). This is his story. "Children in those days didn't ask questions but we listened when grown-ups were talking and what we heard about Arabs was frightening. 'They are stealing, they are killing, and they outnumber us, by far!' We thought that Arabs were much stronger than Jews."

"One day a bunch of us kids including Yigael went off on a jaunt. We passed through the cemetery where Yigael's mother was buried, then down toward the well. Around this well, used by both Jews and Arabs, was a group of Arab boys. Soon there was a quarrel between the two groups of boys. But to our amazement the Arab boys ran off without much of a fight."

"The next day, in a kind of euphoria, we stood upon the hill overlooking the well. We wanted to do it again! Yigael moved away from the group, studied the area below us for a while and returned with his answer: 'Not today!' So of course we didn't go. Yigael was our leader."