My Father's House

In this intimate memoir, Yigal Allon shares recollections of his father, a proud pioneer-farmer in Kfar Tavor in the 1920s-30s who retired in Ginosar, the kibbutz co-founded by his son Yigal, and how his father's personality and life in Jewish settlements in the Galilee before the establishment of the State of Israel shaped his own life.

"The father thought to name the son 'Yigael,' which means 'He will be redeemed,' but decided that was too passive a name, and chose instead 'Yigal,' which m...