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Jabotinsky

American  
[yab-uh-tin-skee, yah-buh-] / ˌjæb əˈtɪn ski, ˌjɑ bə- /

noun

  1. Vladimir, 1880–1940, Russian Zionist leader in Palestine.


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Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of the Revisionist Zionism that produced the Likud Party, stated bluntly: “Every native population in the world resists colonists.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

Patterson became a passionate supporter of Zionism and the ranks of the detachment he commanded included influential heroes of the cause, including Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Joseph Trumpeldor.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2014

Although Jabotinsky considered himself a liberal and a democrat, his nationalism was so fierce that he occasionally betrayed an admiration for Benito Mussolini.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2014

The film is based on a treatment by Harold Lamb and leading Zionist Vladimir Jabotinsky, who died in 1940, nine years before the film's release.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2013

At 19, he briefly became the private secretary of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the militant nationalist who also served as the mentor of another youthful Zionist, Menachem Begin.

From Time Magazine Archive

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