Yigal Allon
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Yigal Allon (Hebrew: ; October 10, 1918- February 29, 1980) was an Israeli Labour Party statesman.
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).
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.
Yigal Allon's name is commonly given to an important road in the West Bank, leading north-eastwards from Jerusalem, named the Allon Road.
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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."
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