Betar
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The Betar Movement (), also spelled Beitar (), is a Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. It was one of several right-wing youth movements that arose at that time and adopted special salutes and uniforms influenced by fascism.
Key facts
- Organization.name
- Betar/Beitar
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- Betar.svgclass=skin-invert
- Organization.image_size
- 150px
- Organization.formation
- , Riga, Latvia
- Organization.type
- Jewish youth paramilitary organization
- Organization.purpose
- Activism and advocacy
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- General Director
- Organization.leader_name
- Nerya Meir
- Organization.membership
- 21,000
- Organization.region_served
- Worldwide
- Organization.named_after
- Joseph Trumpeldor and Betar fortress
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Regional activities
- Africa
- South Africa
- Tunisia
- Australia
- Europe
- Italy
- United Kingdom
- North America
- Canada
- United States
- Israel
- South America
- Brazil
- Uruguay
- Sports
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- References
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The Betar Movement (), also spelled Beitar (), is a Revisionist Zionist youth movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky. It was one of several right-wing youth movements that arose at that time and adopted special salutes and uniforms influenced by fascism.
During World War II, Betar was a source of recruits for both Jewish regiments that fought alongside the British and Jewish groups fighting the British in Mandatory Palestine. Betar was traditionally linked to the original Herut and then Likud political parties of Jewish pioneers, and was closely affiliated with the Revisionist Zionist militant group Irgun. Some of Israel's most prominent politicians were members of Betar (Betarim) in their youth, notably Prime Ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Menachem Begin.
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