Jabotinsky Conference on Zionism led by the Betar movement and "Israel Today" | Israel Today

The global leadership of the Betar movement and the Israel Hayom newspaper will today (Sunday) hold the Jabotinsky Conference on Zionism, at the VERT Hotel in Jerusalem, which will deal with issues in the spirit of Zeev Jabotinsky, the founder of the global Betar movement.

The event is honored in the presence of President Yitzhak Herzog;

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Editor of Israel Today, Boaz Bismuth; Head of the World Zionist Organization and Chairman of the Jewish Agency, Yaakov Hagoel;

Former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon; Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon; Lod Mayor Yair Revivo; and other local authority heads.

Elected President Yitzhak Herzog // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon,

During the conference, the Jabotinsky Prize will be awarded to Moore Janashvili, a resident of Acre who was seriously injured in the riots that took place by the city's Arabs in parallel with Operation The Wall Guard in Gaza.

Opposition leader Netanyahu will sign the conference in his speech.

Conference Events Schedule,

At 17:45, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak at the conference, and before that, Israel Today editor Boaz Bismuth (15:00) and Mor Genshvili, who was injured in a lynching in Acre during Operation Wall Guard (16:00), will speak.

Yigal Brand, CEO of Betar Global, said ahead of the conference that "it is our duty, as a value movement that operates daily in the spirit of Jabotinsky, to open a window to the public for the teachings of the Betar founder, which is not just theory but practical tools for managing Israeli society. .

At the conference, we will seek to touch on the strengthening of Jerusalem through kick-starting entrepreneurship, as well as on conducting a stubborn national response in the face of local or general anarchy on the part of a minority in Israeli society. "

Benjamin Netanyahu // Photo: Liron Moldovan,

The Betar movement, the "Joseph Trumpeldor Hebrew Youth Alliance", was founded in 1923 by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, in Riga, the capital of Latvia. For the rest of his life, and in fact he is considered so to this day.

"Betar's role is quite simple," Jabotinsky wrote, "and yet it is very difficult to create the same Jewish type that the people need in order to establish the Jewish state more quickly and more perfectly."

Betar was named after Jabotinsky's good friend, Joseph Trumpeldor, and after the city of the citadel in Beitar. ("Brit Yosef Trumpeldor").

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