born 1880, Odessa, Russian Empire
died Aug. 3, 1940, near Hunter, N.Y., U.S.
Russian Zionist leader and founder of the Zionist Revisionist movement.
He became a popular journalist and editorialist and by 1903 was expounding Zionism . In 1920 he organized and led Hagana , a Jewish militia. A Revisionist Zionist, he passionately advocated a Jewish state in an area both west and east of the Jordan River. See also Irgun Zvai Leumi .