Jigal Allon

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Jigal Allon (1969)

Jigal Allon ( Hebrew יגאל אלון, English Yigal Allon ; born on October 10, 1918 in Kfar Tabor , Galilee ; died February 29, 1980 in Afula ) was an Israeli general and a politician of the left-wing Zionist parties Achdut haAwoda and Avoda . He was a member of the Knesset from 1955 until his death, Deputy Prime Minister from 1968 to 1977 and Israel's Foreign Minister from 1974 to 1977 . The Allon Plan for the settlement of the West Bank (West Bank) is named after him.

Training and military

Jigal Allon around 1948

Jigal Allon was a member of Kibbutz Ginnossar on the Sea of ​​Galilee and graduated from Kadoorie Agricultural School. He later studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at St Antony's College of Oxford University (1960).

He began his military career as a youth in the Hagana Zionist underground army . In the summer of 1939 he was involved in the murder of several innocent Palestinian residents of Lubya, Galilee . The villagers were shot dead in their homes by a special unit Allon was part of in an act of revenge by the Hagana. An article in the Davar newspaper said the act was

“A horrific murder that testifies that the perpetrators have lost the ability to discern [innocent] people and lack any human feeling. ... The memory of the events in Lubya will forever bring shame to the destructive perpetrators, as well as all their other heinous acts that preceded them. "

The perpetrators were not named in Davar .

Allon served in the field corps, where he rose to regimental commander in 1940. The following year he was one of the founders of the elite Palmach unit , from 1943 to 1945 he was its deputy commander, and then until 1948 its commander. During the Second World War he fought on the side of the British Army and took part in the Syrian-Lebanese campaign .

After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, he joined the Israel Defense Forces (Tzahal) as major general and fought in the Israeli War of Independence . He led Operation Jiftach in Eastern Galilee in April 1948 . As commander and deputy to General David Marcus , he took part in the conquest of Ramla and Lod . As the commander of the southern Tzahal command, he led the campaign in the Negev . At the end of 1949 he ended his military career.

politics

Jigal Allon joined the Mapam socialist-Zionist party . When this split in 1954, he belonged to the moderate wing that formed the party Achdut haAwoda - Poalei Tzion , and became its general secretary. In 1955 he was elected to the Knesset . Achdut HaAwoda belonged to the center-left HaMaʿarach alliance from 1965 onwards and was absorbed into the new Awoda labor party in 1968 . Allon was a member of parliament until his death in 1980.

Allon held numerous ministerial posts: Minister of Labor (1961–1968), Minister of Immigration (1968–1969), Minister of Education (1969–1974) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1974–1977). In the governments of Levi Eschkol , Golda Meir and Jitzchak Rabin , he was Deputy Prime Minister from 1968 to 1977. After Eschkol's death in February 1969, Allon was in charge of government for three weeks.

He was a long-time political opponent of Moshe Dajan's and a proponent of a political compromise with the Arabs . With his November 1967 peace plan (" Allon Plan ") he wanted to achieve a compromise with Jordan, and in 1979 Allon was involved in the peace treaty with Egypt .

Allon was buried on March 3, 1980 at his place of residence, Kibbutz Ginnossar on the Sea of ​​Galilee . The Yigal Allon Museum and Educational Center has been located there since 1987 .

Publications

  • My Fathers House: Recollections by Israel's Former Foreign Minister. Autobiography. WW Norton, 1976 (English).
  • And David took the sling. Birth and Becoming of the Army of Israel. Colloquium, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-7678-0300-3 .
  • Shield of David: An Account of Israel's Defense Forces. Littlehampton Bookservice Ltd., 1970, ISBN 0-297-00133-7 (English).

literature

  • Yehoram Cohen: The Allon Plan. 1972.

Web links

Commons : Jigal Allon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ofer Aderet: Assassinations, Terror Attacks and Even Castration - the Hidden Actions of Israel's Pre-state Militia. In: Haaretz , June 13, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c Jigal Allon in the Directory of Knesset Members, accessed September 18, 2019.
  3. ^ Dove and falcon under the radar. Israelnetz.de , March 4, 2020, accessed on March 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Allon, Jigal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paicovitch (maiden name); Allon, Yigal (English spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli Labor Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Kfar Tabor , Galilee
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 1980
Place of death Afula