Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880–1940) was a Russian-born Jewish writer and political leader who founded Revisionist Zionism and helped establish the Irgun, advocating Jewish statehood in Palestine.

Vladimir Jabotinsky: A pen name used by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, alongside his Hebrew name Ze'ev. His writing and political work appeared under this Russian form of his name.
Revisionist Zionism: A Zionist current founded by Jabotinsky that demanded a Jewish state and a more assertive national strategy. It names the movement through which his political program took form.
Odesa: A major Black Sea port city in present-day Ukraine with a historically large Jewish population. Jabotinsky was born and raised in Odesa, where he began his literary career.
Haganah: The principal Jewish underground defense organization in Mandatory Palestine before Israel's establishment. Its strategy and political affiliation differed from those of Jabotinsky's Irgun.
Joseph Trumpeldor: A Russian-born Zionist activist and military figure who died defending Tel Hai in 1920. Jabotinsky worked with Trumpeldor to organize Jewish self-defense units during World War I.
Iron Wall (essay): Jabotinsky's 1923 essay arguing that Arab opposition to Zionism could not be overcome by voluntary agreement alone. It states his argument for building Jewish strength before seeking political accommodation.
Pogroms in the Russian Empire: Organized or tolerated anti-Jewish violence that occurred repeatedly in the Russian Empire, especially in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Anti-Jewish violence in the empire shaped Jabotinsky's advocacy of Jewish self-defense.
Israeli Revisionism: A political tradition in Israel rooted in Revisionist Zionism and associated especially with the Likud movement. It carried Jabotinsky's ideological legacy into Israeli party politics.
Chaim Weizmann: A Zionist leader and chemist who became the first president of Israel in 1949. Weizmann's diplomacy and gradualist strategy contrasted with Jabotinsky's demand for an explicit Jewish state.
Irgun: A Jewish underground military organization in Mandatory Palestine, founded in 1931 by Revisionist Zionists. Jabotinsky became the organization's political patron and its founding leader.

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