Ze'ev Jabotinsky, JD Biography
- Title:
- Founder and leader of the New Zionist Organization
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Is a Two-State Solution (Israel and Palestine) an Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of June 1, 2007
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Founder and leader of the New Zionist Organization
- Resided in Palestine and edited the Hebrew daily Doar Hayom, 1928-1929
- Established the Union of ZionistsRevisionists (Hatzohar), 1925
- Created and headed the youth movement Betar (Brith Joseph Trumpeldor), 1923
- Joined the Zionist Executive and was one of the founders of “Keren Hayesod” (United Israel Appeal), 1921
- During Passover, he stood at the head of the Haganah (Jewish defense forces) in Jerusalem against Arab riots, 1920
- World War I – Served as a Lieutenant in the British Jewish Legion and participated in the assault of the Jordan River crossings and the conquest of Esalt in the campaign to free Eretz Israel (Palestine) from Turkish rule
- Worked for the establishment of the Jewish Legion
- Served as a correspondent for several well-known Russian newspapers
- Active in spreading the Hebrew language and culture throughout Russia, and the establishment of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
- Elected as a delegate to the 6th Zionist Congress
- Organized self-defense units and fought for Jewish minority rights in Russia
- The pogrom against the Jews of Kishinev spurred Jabotinsky to undertake Zionist activity, 1903
- Education:
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- Law degree, University of Rome
- Other:
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- Jewish Legion
- Union of ZionistsRevisionists (Hatzohar)
- Keren Hayesod
- Irgun Tzvai Leumi (I.Z.L)
- Betar
- The New Zionist Organization
- Fluent in many languages, he translated into Hebrew some of the best-known classics of world literature
- Also known as Vladimir Jabotinsky
- Born in 1880, died in 1940