Yigal Allon Center

Yigal Allon Center is a vibrant educational center and museum fostering a holistic worldview in the spirit of Yigal Allon through a commitment to Tikkun Olam. It serves a diverse audience of over 140,000 people annually. The Center inspires participants to become socially responsible through the adoption of democracy, equality, justice, pluralism and peace. The Yigal Allon Center sees Israeli society as simultaneously Zionist-Jewish and equal-democratic. It is a society striving for peace and inspired by Yigal Allon values and legacy. Its commitment to shared society follows in the footsteps of Yigal Allon, the Palmach commander, who understood that Arabs and Jews will forever live together and should learn to co-create a better society for all. Allon began inviting Arab and Jewish friends to his home in Ginosar in 1954 and continued that tradition until his death in 1980. The Center’s shared society programs provide the educational, cultural and civic foundation for peace and solidarity between Arabs and Jews and for the creation of a shared society. Following Yigal Allon’s example, the organization perceives education as a building block in the construction of social justice and democracy in the spirit of Humanist-Zionism. Programs range from a day of experiential learning to a year-long residential leadership academy for shared society. The program participants are highly diverse, they include school children, pre-military academy students, soldiers, college students, police officers, prison guards, pensioners and the general public. Many of the participants come from Israel’s social, economic and geographic periphery. The Center challenges participants to consider their role in society and hone their vision of Israel’s future.