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Yigal Allon
Israeli politician, general
1918 – 1980aged 61
A Palmach commander who helped build the Jewish militia that became the core of Israel's army, then commanded the conquest of the Galilee, Lod, Ramla, and the Negev to Eilat during the 1947–49 war. He later became a leading figure in the Labor Party, serving as foreign minister, education minister, and deputy prime minister, and briefly as acting prime minister in 1969 between Levi Eshkol's death and Golda Meir's appointment — the first person born outside Europe to hold the office. In 1967 he devised the Allon Plan, proposing Israel's approach to the newly captured territories.