Article: Protests follow suggestion to name Kiryat Arba street after Yigal Allon

HERB KEINON
Jerusalem Post
12-06-1996
AS if the Kiryat Arba/Hebron settlements are not embroiled in enough controversy, a suggestion last week to name a street in Kiryat Arba after Yigal Allon has generated more.

Under the headline "Leave the memory of Yigal Allon alone," a nearly one-quarter page add appeared in the Ha'aretz newspaper yesterday calling on settlers not to use Allon to further their political agenda. The ad was signed by three long-time Labor activists.

The advertisement was in reaction to a comment made by Kiryat Arba activist Elyakim Ha'etzni to a business group in Tel Aviv that the settlement would name a street after Allon.

Ha'etzni yesterday called Allon "the father of ...

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