He served briefly as acting Prime Minister of Israel between the death of Levi Eshkol and the appointment of Golda Meir in 1969.

Born a child of pioneer settlers in the Lower Galilee, Allon initially rose to prominence through his military career.

Yigal Peikowitz (later Allon) was born on 10 October 1918 in Kfar Tavor, then a part of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration.

Kfar Tavor was an isolated area that experienced frequent raids and thefts by neighboring Arab and Bedouin communities.

After graduating in 1937, Allon and a group of Labor Zionists established Kibbutz Ginosar on land leased to the settlement of Migdal by the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association.

[6] While working in the fields of the kibbutz during the revolt, Allon was summoned by Yitzhak Sadeh to take a command position in the Haganah.

In this role, he participated in the expulsion of Arabs who brought their flocks onto Jewish fields and became known for planning ambushes against infiltrating gangs.

During this time, Allon also took part in operations with the Special Night Squads (SNS) under the command of Orde Wingate and Bala Bredin.

[8] On June 22, 1948, during David Ben-Gurion's confrontation with the Irgun over the distribution of weapons from the Altalena, Allon commanded the troops ordered to shell the vessel.

[11] On October 18, 1949, during an official visit to Paris, Allon was informed by his French hosts that Ben-Gurion had decided to replace him with Moshe Dayan as Operational Commander.

Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, leader of the rival governing Mapai party, told Allon to dissociate himself from Mapam, considering it too left-wing and a potential threat to the State of Israel's security.

[14] In December 1948, Mapam co-leader Meir Ya'ari criticized Allon’s use of tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees for strategic purposes.

[17] In 1974, he participated in negotiations related to the Separation of Forces Agreement, In 1974, Allon was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, a position he held until 1977.

According to the plan, Israel would retain approximately one-third of the West Bank, focusing on the Jordan Valley, where a strip of settlements and military installations would be established.

Additional areas, including land flanking the Jericho-Jerusalem road, Gush Etzion, and parts of the Hebron Hills, were to be annexed to Israel.

[23] The funeral was attended by tens of thousands of mourners, with condolences extended by many world leaders, including Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.

This event was later linked to the broader Yemenite Children Affair, during which many Jewish babies, primarily from Yemen, were put up for adoption in Israel.