Yigal Allon (born Yigal Peikowitz; October 10, 1918 – February 29, 1980) was an Israeli military leader and politician. Born in Kfar Tavor, Mandatory Palestine, to Reuven and Chaya Peikowitz, Jewish immigrants from Belarus who were among the founders of the settlement, he worked on his family's farm from a young age and was involved in local security amid Arab-Jewish tensions. Allon rose to prominence as a commander in the Palmach, the elite strike force of the Haganah, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, where he led operations including the capture and expulsion of populations from Lydda, Ramla, Safad, Hebron hills, and the Faluja pocket. He employed psychological warfare tactics against Palestinian Arabs in the Galilee panhandle, as he later described, and became a general in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). After military service, Allon entered politics, co-founding Ahdut HaAvoda and later joining the Israeli Labor Party. Elected to the Knesset in 1955 representing Ahdut HaAvoda–Po'alei Tziyyon, he served in various ministerial roles under David Ben-Gurion and others, including Minister of Labour (1961-1968) and Deputy Prime Minister. He briefly acted as Prime Minister in 1969 between Levi Eshkol's death and Golda Meir's appointment, becoming the first non-European-born Israeli to hold the position (acting). Allon served as Foreign Minister from 1974 to 1975 and held government ministerial roles from the third to the ninth Knesset. His legacy includes significant contributions to Israel's security doctrine and foreign policy, particularly the 'Allon Plan' for post-1967 territories. He died of heart disease in 1980. His roles in 1948 expulsions remain controversial, criticized in Palestinian narratives for contributing to the Nakba.