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Hatzohar
הצה"ר‎
LeaderZe'ev Jabotinsky
Menachem Begin
Aryeh Altman
Founded1925
Dissolved1949
Merged intoHerut
NewspaperHazit HaAm
HaYarden
HaMashkif
Youth wingBetar
ParamilitaryBetar
Membership (1934)600,000
IdeologyRevisionist Zionism
National liberalism[1][2]
Political positionRight-wing
Colors  Blue
Most MKs0
Election symbol

Hatzohar (Hebrew: הצה"ר), full name Brit HaTzionim HaRevizionistim (lit. "Alliance of Revisionist Zionists"), was a Revisionist Zionist organization and political party in Mandatory Palestine and newly independent Israel.

History

Hatzohar was founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky and others in Paris in April 1925.[3][4][5] It followed the establishment of Jabotinsky's revisionist youth movement Betar in 1923. The initial nucleus of the movement consisted of a group of Russian Zionists who had supported Jabotinsky in establishing the Jewish Legion during World War I.

The photo of the First World Conference in Paris in 1925 shows 22 founding members. Aside from Jabotinsky, they included: M. Berchin-Benedictoff, Isidore Frankel, Meir Grossman, A. Ginsbourg, Aron Propes, Jacques Segal, Albert Stara, Ze'ev (Vladimir) Tiomkin, Zinovy Tiomkin, Israel Trivus, and Yehoshua Yeivin.

The name of 'revisionist' stems from the demands by these Zionists for a revision of the Zionist Organization's policies and its leadership under Chaim Weizmann, as well as the elected Jewish leadership in Palestine.[4] They saw these policies as appeasement of British Government decisions in Mandatory Palestine.

The party began publishing Hazit HaAm in 1931, but it was shut down by the British authorities after a few months. They went on to establish HaYarden, and in 1938 the daily HaMashkif.[6] The party had briefly also been associated with Doar HaYom.

Polish members of the organisation were, among other things, instrumental in creating Żydowski Związek Wojskowy, one of two Jewish organisations that organised the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

At the time of Israel's independence in 1948, Hatzohar was the largest right-wing organization in the country, and had three seats in the Provisional State Council (held by Herzl Rosenblum, Zvi Segal and Ben-Zion Sternberg). However, the founding of Herut by Menachem Begin in the same year undermined its success. Although some purists alleged that Begin was out to steal Jabotinsky's mantle and refused to defect from the party, under the leadership of Aryeh Altman, Hatzohar won less than 1% of the vote in Israel's first elections and failed to cross the Knesset's electoral threshold. In contrast, Herut won 14 seats with 11.5% of the vote; Altman later joined Herut and was elected to the Knesset on its list in 1951, whilst Begin would carry Revisionist ideology of Likud to electoral victory in 1977.

The party was disbanded prior to the 1951 elections when it merged into Herut.

Leaders

Leader Took office Left office
1 Ze'ev Jabotinsky 1925 1940
2 Menachem Begin 1940 1948
3 Aryeh Altman 1948 1949

Election results

Election Leader Votes % Place Seats won +/−
1925 Ze'ev Jabotinsky N/A N/A 4th
15 / 221
 New
1931 Ze'ev Jabotinsky 8,069 16.3 2nd
10 / 71
 Decrease 2
1944 Menachem Begin Did not contest Decrease 10
1949 Aryeh Altman 2,892 0.7 14th
0 / 120
 Steady 0
  • First World Conference Hatzohar, Paris 1925
    First World Conference Hatzohar, Paris 1925
  • Ze'ev Jabotinsky at a Hatzohar Conference (likely in Paris, in the second half of the 1920s)
    Ze'ev Jabotinsky at a Hatzohar Conference (likely in Paris, in the second half of the 1920s)
  • 1949 convention of Hatzohar
    1949 convention of Hatzohar

See also

References

  1. ^ "'Balancing the liberal and the national was the genetic code of the movement Jabotinsky and Begin founded': Dan Meridor on why Israel needs to renew the Liberal National tradition". Fathom. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  2. ^ Ozavci, Ozan (2020), Green, Abigail; Levis Sullam, Simon (eds.), "A Jewish "Liberal" in Istanbul: Vladimir Jabotinsky, the Young Turks and the Zionist Press Network, 1908–1911", Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: A Global History, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 289–314, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-48240-4_12, ISBN 978-3-030-48240-4, retrieved 2024-04-04
  3. ^ Revisionist Zionists, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
  4. ^ a b Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky Jewish Virtual Library
  5. ^ "Isidore Franckel notable figure in Jewish history founded Zionist-Revisionist Hatzohar with Jabotinsky". Franckel.com.
  6. ^ The Israeli Press Archived 2002-09-11 at the Wayback Machine Jewish Virtual Library
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