(1880-1940) A Jewish Zionist of Russian origin. Jabotinksy came to
Palestine first as a soldier with the British Jewish Legion during World War I, a legion that Jabotinsky helped construct. The founder of
Revisionist Zionism in 1925, he sponsored a more militant and non-socialist approach to building the Jewish homeland in Palestine than that of
Labor Zionism. He also became a supporter of militant actions against the
British Mandate in Palestine in order to more quickly assert the Jewish right to political sovereignty in the area. See "The Iron Wall:
Israel and the Arab World," Avi Shlaim, W.W. Norton & Company, 2001; and "
Jabotinksy: A Life," Hillel Halkin, Yale University Press, 2014.