37 Facts About Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Ze'ev Jabotinsky was a member of the Russian Society of Sailing and Trade and was primarily involved in wheat trading.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky dropped out of school at the age of 17 with a guarantee of a job as a correspondent for a local Odessan newspaper, the Odesskiy Listok, and was sent to Bern and Rome as a correspondent.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky worked for the Odesskie Novosti after his return from Italy.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky was a childhood friend of Russian journalist and poet Korney Chukovsky.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky was held isolated in a prison cell in the city for two months, where he communicated with other inmates through shouting and passing written notes.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky became a source of great controversy in the Russian Jewish community as a result of these actions.

In light of Gogol's antisemitic views, Ze'ev Jabotinsky claimed it was unseemly for Russian Jews to take part in these ceremonies, as it showed they had no Jewish self-respect.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky's battalion was one of the first to enter Transjordan.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky was demobilised in September 1919, soon after he complained to Field Marshal Allenby about the British Army's attitude towards Zionism and the reduction of the Jewish Legion to just one battalion.

The next day Ze'ev Jabotinsky protested to the police that he was their commander and therefore solely responsible, so they should be released.

In 1920, Ze'ev Jabotinsky was elected to the first Assembly of Representatives in Palestine.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky was a founder of the newly registered Keren haYesod and served as its director of propaganda.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky left the mainstream Zionist movement in 1923 due to differences of opinion between him and its chairman, Chaim Weizmann, establishing a new revisionist party called Alliance of Revisionists-Zionists and its Zionist youth paramilitary organization Betar.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky maintained that this could only be achieved through force, and condemned the "vegetarians" and "peace mongers" in mainstream Zionism who believed that this could be achieved peacefully.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky's philosophy contrasted with that of the socialist-oriented Labor Zionists, in that it focused its economic and social policy on the ideals of the Jewish middle class in Europe.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky's ideal for a Jewish state was a form of nation state based loosely on the British imperial model.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky set up the Betar Naval Academy, a Zionist naval training school established in Civitavecchia, Italy in 1934 with the agreement of Benito Mussolini.

In 1936, Ze'ev Jabotinsky prepared the so-called "evacuation plan", which called for the evacuation of 1.5 million Jews from Poland, the Baltic States, Nazi Germany, Hungary and Romania to Palestine over the span of the next ten years.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky stated that his goal was to reduce Jewish population in the countries involved, to levels that would make them disinterested in its further reduction.

In particular, the fact that the 'evacuation plan' had the approval of the Polish government was taken by many Polish Jews as indicating Ze'ev Jabotinsky had gained the endorsement of what they considered to be the wrong people.

Chaim Weizmann suggested that Ze'ev Jabotinsky was willing to accept Madagascar as one destination for limited emigration for Jews, due to political issues involved with settlement in Palestine, and dispatches from Warsaw by British ambassador Hugh Kennard, corroborate Weizmann's account.

Two years later, in 1938, Ze'ev Jabotinsky allegedly stated in a speech that Polish Jews were "living on the edge of the volcano" and warned that the situation in Poland could drastically worsen sometime in the near future.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky went on to warn Jews in Europe that they should leave for Palestine as soon as possible.

The earliest mention of the alleged prophetic content that Goldstein and Huri could locate was published in 1958 by the same associate of Ze'ev Jabotinsky who had published the original text in 1938, possibly to bolster the campaign to relocate Ze'ev Jabotinsky's remains to Israel.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky reacted by proposing a plan for an armed Jewish revolt in Palestine.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky sent the plan to the Irgun High Command in six coded letters.

On 12 May 1940, Ze'ev Jabotinsky offered Winston Churchill the support of a 130,000 strong Jewish volunteer corps to fight the Nazis; he proposed Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion the creation of a united front for policy and relief.

At that point, Ze'ev Jabotinsky changed his pen name to Altalena, which he confesses was a mistake.

In 1914, Ze'ev Jabotinsky published the first Hebrew translation of Edgar Allan Poe's poems The Raven and Annabel Lee.

From 1923, Ze'ev Jabotinsky was editor of the revived Jewish weekly Rassvet, published first in Berlin, then in Paris.

Eri Ze'ev Jabotinsky briefly served in the 1st Knesset of Israel; he died on 6 June 1969 age 58 -one year younger than his father had been when he died at the age of 59.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky died of a heart attack shortly before midnight on 3 August 1940, while he was visiting a Jewish self-defense camp run by Betar in Hunter, New York.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky was buried in New Montefiore Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York, in accordance with a clause of his will.

Ben-Gurion refused to allow Ze'ev Jabotinsky to be reburied in Israel.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky was convinced that there was no way for the Jews to regain any part of Palestine without opposition from the Arabs.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky viewed Zionism as a complete cultural departure from the Jewish way of life in Europe and saw the new "Hebrew" as a radical redefinition of the Jewish culture and values at the time.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky's views were adopted by some Zionist publications, including Cahiers du Betar, a monthly in Tunisia.