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About Colonel Joseph Alon
Yosef Alon (Hebrew: יוסף (ג'ו) אלון) born in Czechoslovakia as Josef Plaček, (July 25, 1929 – July 1, 1973) was an Israeli Air Force officer who was mysteriously shot and killed in the driveway of his home in Maryland, USA.[2] Alon fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War as a fighter pilot and early member of the nascent Israeli Air Force, and would go on to complete 75 missions. When Israeli formed its first Mirage fighter jet squadron, Alon was assigned its commander. In 1970, then a colonel, Alon was chosen to be the assistant air and naval attache at Israel's Washington, D.C. embassy.[3] Installed in what should have been a three-year assignment, Alon advocated strongly on Israeli arms procurement, especially regarding the F-4 Phantom. On the night of June 30, 1973, Yosef Alon and his wife Dvora went to a dinner party organized for a departing embassy staffer. After two and a half hours of socializing and drinking, at roughly 12:30 am on July 1, the couple entered their Ford Galaxie and drove home to Chevy Chase, Maryland, arriving about a half-hour later. Dvora exited the vehicle and walked a few dozen feet to their porch while Alon gathered up his sports jacket on the back seat. At this moment Alon was shot five times by a foreign-made .38-caliber revolver, one shot fatally hitting his heart. Dvora rushed inside and called the police, seeing only a light-colored car drive away, and then returned to the front yard and attempted with her 18-year-old daughter Dalia to stem Alon's bleeding with towels. At 1:27 am, Alon died at the hospital.[citation needed]
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Colonel Joseph Alon's Timeline
| 1929 |
July 27, 1929
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Heftziba, Israel
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| 1973 |
July 1, 1973
Age 43
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Washington, District of Columbia, DC, United States
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