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Betar
Betar / Beitar
בית"ר
‎
Named after
Joseph Trumpeldor
Formation
December 23, 1923
; 98 years ago
Type
Jewish Youth Movement
Purpose
Educational
Region served
Worldwide
Membership
21,000
general-director)
Nerya Meir
The
Betar Movement
(
Hebrew
:
תנועת בית"ר
), also spelled
Beitar
(
בית"ר
), is a
Revisionist Zionist
youth movement founded in 1923 in
Riga
,
Latvia
, by
Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky
. Chapters sprang up across Europe, even during
World War II
. After the war and during the settlement of what became
Israel
, Betar was traditionally linked to the original
Herut
and then
Likud
political parties of
Jewish
pioneers. It was closely affiliated with the pre-Israel Revisionist Zionist paramilitary group
Irgun Zevai Leumi
. It was one of many right-wing movements and youth groups arising at that time that adopted special salutes and uniforms.
[1]
Some of the most prominent politicians of Israel were Betarim in their youth, most notably prime ministers
Yitzhak Shamir
and
Menachem Begin
, an admirer of Jabotinsky.
[2]
Today, Betar promotes
Jewish leadership
on university campuses as well as in local communities.
[3]
Its history of empowering Jewish youth dates back to before the establishment of the State of Israel. Throughout World War II, Betar was a major source of recruits for both the Jewish regiments that fought the Nazis alongside the British and the Jewish forces that waged an ongoing guerrilla war against the British in Palestine. Across Europe, Betar militias played major roles in independently resisting
Nazi
forces and their various assaults on Jewish communities.