Yigal alon biography

Yigal Allon described the affect of psychological warfare on the Palestinian Arabs in the Galilee panhandle during the war:. The confidence of thousands of [Palestinian] Arabs of the Hula [Valley] was shaken. We had ONLY five days left. The protracted battles reduced our forces, and we faced major tasks in blocking [prospective Syrian and Lebanese] invasion routes.

We, therefore, looked for a means that would not oblige us to use force to DRIVE OUT tens of thousands of hostile [Palestinian] Arabs left in the Galilee and who, in the event of an invasion, could strike at us from behind. Palestinian are being ethnically cleansed out of Faluja in March of And rumour spread throughout Hula that the time had come to flee.

The flight encompassed tens of thousands. Inwith the establishment of the Palmach, Yigal was appointed commander of Company A. He commanded a patrol unit that instructed the way to Syria from Metula and Marj-Iyun, as an aid to the British army that attacked Syria and Lebanon. In founded the Palmach's Mista'arvim unit and was its commander.

In he was appointed deputy commander of the Palmach, and took part in the secret immigration of Jews from Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. In he served as commander of the Palmach and during the "rebellion" he led the struggle against the British. Inat the beginning of the War of Independence, he founded the Yiftach Brigade of the Palmach and was its first commander, and commander of the "Yiftach" operation for the liberation of the Eastern Galilee.

After that he commanded "Danny" operation. From Augustwith the establishment of the IDF, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Command, commanding the conquest of the entire south and the Negev as far as Eilat. London: Penguin Books. Junior Judaica, Encyclopaedia Judaica for Youth. Jewish Agency for Israel. Archived from the original on 24 June Retrieved 19 October Archived from the yigal alon biography on 25 February Britannica Online Encyclopedia.

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Yigal alon biography

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Toggle the table of contents. Yigal Allon. In office 26 February — 17 March In office 1 July — 10 March Levi Eshkol Golda Meir. Simha Erlich Yigael Yadin. Immigrant Absorption. Education and Culture. The Allon Plan was never adopted by the Government, but until most of the Jewish settlements in the territories were established within its parameters.

As foreign minister Allon was a member of the negotiating team that held talks with U. In he also tried to promote his "Jericho Plan," under which Israel would hand over Jericho and an area around it to King Hussein of Jordan, as a first step towards implementing the Allon Plan, but the results of the Rabat Arab Summit Conference foiled his plans.

Among the issues that Allon promoted in the Knesset was the Mediterranean- Dead Sea canal for the generation of electricity. Allon also supported the creation of a united kibbutz movement, in order to better confront the economic difficulties that the kibbutzim faced following the elections. In the books he wrote between and Allon developed a defense doctrine, which included the concept of "anticipatory initiative.

Even after his premature death, differences of opinion remained as to whether Yigal Allon had been deliberately denied his rightful place as leader of the Israel Labor Party, or whether he had lost something of his charisma and qualities of leadership after ending his military career. In the late s British Labour Party leader Harold Wilson said of Allon that he would never assume the leadership of his party, since he was "incapable of going for the kill.

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