Ze'ev Jabotinsky MBE  born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky (October 18, 1880 – August 4, 1940) was a Revisionist

Revisionist Zionism

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 Zionist

Zionism

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 leader, author, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa

Odessa

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. He also helped form the Jewish Legion

Jewish Legion

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 of the British army in World War I

World War I

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Born Vladimir Jabotinsky in Odessa

Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

, Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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, he was raised in a Jewish middle-class home and educated in Russian schools.