Yona Yagol, the well known journalist and author, and an ardent Labor Zionist spokesman who founded in Poland the Gordonia movement named after A. D. Gordon, has died here at the age of 68. A close associate of the late Pinhas Lavon, Yagol left Mapai when Lavon left the Labor government in 1955 over charges that he was involved in an Israeli spy ring in Egypt. But Yagol returned to the Labor Party in which he subsequently held various key positions. He was also the representative of Histadrut in the European Trade, Union Council.
After the Liked victory in 1978, Yagol wrote two books, both controversial. One, “The End of the Hegemony, “analyzed the reason for Labor’s defeat, and the other, a fictional story, dealt with the possibility of a takeover of the Temple Mount by Jewish militants resembling the Jewish Defense League. He will be buried at Deganya Beth, the place where he resided and worked after coming to Palestine in the 1920s.
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