Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky

Ze'ev (Vladmir) Jabotinsky was the founder and spiritual leader of Revisionist Zionism. Vladimir Jabotinsky was born in Odessa in 1880, and died in New York in 1940 while working to build up North American Zionism. During his lifetime, he was a journalist, politician, playwright, orator, and visionary.

Jabotinsky's major achievements in Israel were the creation of Jewish fighting brigades to join the British war effort in both World Wars. The Zion Mule Corps of 1916-1918 fought during the battle of Galipolli, and the Jewish Brigades joined the anti-Nazi war effort in North Africa.

Jabotinsky's revisionism was the root of the Irgun Zvai Leumi militia in Israel from 1943 until the founding of the State of Israel. Later on, members of the Irgun founded various right-wing political parties in Israel, which coalesced in 1973 to form the right-of-centre Likud party. The most prominent of the original parties was the Herut party led by Menachem Begin.

Jabotinsky is buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.