Allon, Yigal

Allon, Yigal

▪ Israeli politician
original name  Yigal Paicovitch  
born October 10, 1918, Kefar Tavor, Palestine [now in Israel]
died February 29, 1980, ʿAfula, Israel

      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.

      Allon was one of the first commanders of the Palmach, an elite branch of the Haganah, a Zionist military organization representing the majority of the Jews in Palestine after World War I. He was involved in smuggling European Jews into Palestine in defiance of restrictions placed on immigration by Great Britain, the region's mandatory power during the period between the world wars. During World War II he fought as a volunteer alongside British soldiers against the Vichy French in Lebanon and Syria. After Israel proclaimed independence on May 15, 1948, the Haganah became the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and Allon's initial reluctance to place the Palmach under IDF command earned him the enmity of David Ben-Gurion (Ben-Gurion, David), the first prime minister of Israel. As a commander of the Palmach, Allon fought major battles against the Arabs on various fronts during the first Arab-Israeli War (Arab-Israeli wars). Pursuing Egyptian forces from the Negev into Sinai, he captured many prisoners of war, including Egypt's future president, Gamal Abdel Nasser (Nasser, Gamal Abdel), then a junior officer.

      Allon entered politics in 1955 when he was elected to the Israeli Knesset (parliament) as representative of Aḥdut ha-ʿAvoda–Poʿale Tziyyon (“Unity of Labour–Workers of Zion”). He held important portfolios in the cabinets of Ben-Gurion, Levi Eshkol (Eshkol, Levi), and Golda Meir (Meir, Golda) and served briefly as acting prime minister in 1969. Following the 1967 war, as deputy prime minister, he developed a peace plan that proposed restoring most of the West Bank territory to Jordan while retaining military settlements along the Jordan River. The plan was never adopted but spurred the growth of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories in subsequent decades. His unexpected death occurred while he was being considered for the leadership of the Israel Labour Party.

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