Allon, who would become commander-in-chief of the pre-independence military unit Palmach, began his army career during the Arab revolt in British Mandatory Palestine in the late 1930s.
Future generals (left to right) Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Sadeh and Yigal Allon, at Kibbutz Hanita in 1938(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)ByBENJAMIN GLATT