[[File:Grave of Joe Alon.JPG |thumb|right|200px|Alon’s grave in Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery]]
On the night of June 30, 1973, 44-year-old Yosef Alon and his wife Dvora went to a dinner party for a departing Israeli embassy staffer.[<ref name="TN">{{cite news |url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/476016] |title=CIA, FBI documents provide clues to 1973 killing of Israeli diplomat |date=June 28, 2007 |work=Taiwan News |first1=Adam |last1=Goldman |first2=Randy |last2=Herschaft |access-date=December 29, 2021}}</ref> 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 20-30 feet to their porch, while Alon gathered up his sports jacket on the back seat.[<ref name="TW">{{cite news |url=https://tulsaworld.com/archive/files-call-for-heating-up-cold-case-of-73/article_1e66891e-ef64-5bed-bd8a-e69b22d6d224.amp.html][https:|title=Files call for heating up cold case of '73 |date=September 27, 2019 |work=Tulsa World |first1=Adam |last1=Goldman |first2=Randy |last2=Herschaft |agency=Associated Press |access-date=December 29, 2021 }}</ref><ref name="TN" /www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/476016]>
At this moment, Alon was shot in his chest five times with copper-jacketed military bullets by a foreign-made [[.38 caliber]] [[revolver]], either an F.I.E. Titan Tiger or a German [[Arminius (revolvers)| Arminius]], one shot fatally hitting his heart and killing him instantly, while the other shots caused only minor wounds.[<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/02/archives/israeli-attache-shot-dead-at-home-near-washington-israeli-attache.html?_r=0][https://tulsaworld.com/archive/files |title=Israeli Attache Shot Dead At Home Near Washington |date=July 2, 1973 |work=The New York Times |first=Bernard |last=Gwertzman |access-call-for-heating-up-cold-case-of-73date=December 29, 2021 }}</article_1e66891e-ef64-5bed-bd8a-e69b22d6d224.amp.html]ref><ref name="TW" [https:/><ref name="TN" /www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/476016]> Dvora rushed inside and called the police, seeing only a light-colored car drive away, and then returned to the front yard.[https:<ref name="TW" //tulsaworld.com/archive/files-call-for-heating-up-cold-case-of-73/article_1e66891e-ef64-5bed-bd8a-e69b22d6d224.amp.html]><ref name="TN" [https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/476016]> She attempted with her 18-year-old daughter Dahlia to stem his bleeding with towels.<ref name="TN" [https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/476016]> Alon was taken to a hospital, where he died at 1:27 am.<ref name=arutz/>
