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Israel / Palestine: Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940), Revisionist Zionist leader, founder of the the Jewish Legion of the British Army in World War I, together with an adjutant of the French Army, 1919

Israel / Palestine: Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940), Revisionist Zionist leader, founder of the the Jewish Legion of the British Army in World War I, together with an adjutant of the French Army, 1919

Ze'ev Jabotinsky, MBE (born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky, 18 October 1880 – 4 August 1940), was a Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa.

Together with Joseph Trumpeldor, Jabotinsky co-founded the Jewish Legion of the British Army in World War I and later established several Jewish organizations, including Beitar, haTzohar and the Irgun.