Funeral services will be held in Binyamina tomorrow afternoon for Mordechai Allon, elder brother of Foreign Minister Yigal Allon, who died there this morning at the age of 77. Because of his brother’s death, Allon was not at Ben Gurion Airport this evening when Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger returned from his latest talks with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Aswan. But aides to the Foreign Minister said Allon would participate in the talks with Kissinger here later this evening.
Mordechai Allon was born in Rosh Pina in Galilee, the son of Haya and Reuven Feikovitch who were founders of that first Jewish settlement in northern Palestine. During the period of the British Mandate he served as a Haganah officer in the Samaria region and was later involved in clandestine immigration activities on behalf of Haganah and Betar.
Mr. Allon became active in politics as a member of the Liberal Party after Israel achieved independence. He served for many years as chairman of the Binyamina town council and, until a few months ago, was chairman of the National Association of Farmers. He served in the army during the Six-Day War and was fondly remembered as the oldest officer on active duty. Shortly after the war he volunteered to serve the West Bank Military Government as a staff officer attached to the Nablus area. He helped administer that region for the next four-and-a-half years.
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