Ze’ev Jabotinsky Founds Ha-Zohar, a Revisionist Zionist Alliance

Jabotinsky is born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinskyin in Odessa in 1880. He openly critizes the Zionist leadership for being too passive while British officials in Palestine take on pro-Arab viewpoints. He does not accept Chaim Weizmann’s leadership of the Zionist movement. Thus at the 14th Zionist Congress in Berlin, he forms Ha-Zohar. He, like Herzl, four decades earlier, was a lone wolf, trail blazer in forming Revisionist Zionism. During his career, he founds three other pivotal organizations: The New Zionist Organization, the youth movement, Betar, and the Irgun’s Zvai Le’umi underground organization. He becomes an ideological mentor to Menachem Begin, Israel’s Sixth Prime Minister.