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Pi philosopher

Pi ideological extremist

Founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement and the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa

With Joseph Trumpeldor, he co-founded the Jewish Legion of the British Army in World War I

Later he established several Jewish organizations, including the paramilitary group Betar in Latvia, the youth movement Hatzohar and the militant organization Irgun in Mandatory Palestine

After he was discharged from the British Army in September 1919, he openly trained Jews in warfare and the use of small arms

Elected to the first Assembly of Representatives in Palestine

The following year he was elected to the executive council of the Zionist Organization

Left the mainstream Zionist movement in 1923 due to differences of opinion between him and its chairman, Chaim Weizmann, establishing a new revisionist party called Alliance of Revisionists-Zionists and its Zionist youth paramilitary organization Betar, which demanded that the mainstream Zionist movement recognize as its stated objective the establishment of a Jewish state on both banks of the Jordan River

His main goal was to establish, with the help of the British Empire, a modern Jewish state in which equality of rights for its Arab minority were upheld

His philosophy contrasted with that of the socialist-oriented Labor Zionists, in that it focused its economic and social policy on the ideals of the Jewish middle class in Europe

His ideal for a Jewish state was a form of nation state based loosely on the British imperial mode

Both a nationalist and a liberal democrat

Rejected authoritarian notions of state authority and its imposition on individual liberty; he said that "Every man is a king"

Championed the notion of a free press and believed the new Jewish state would protect the rights and interests of minorities

As an economic liberal, he supported a free market with minimal government intervention, but also believed that the "'elementary necessities' of the average person...: food, shelter, clothing, the opportunity to educate his children, and medical aid in case of illness" should be supplied by the state

In 1930, while he was visiting South Africa, he was informed by the British Colonial Office that he would not be allowed to return to Palestine

Died of a heart attack shortly before midnight on 3 August 1940, while he was visiting a Jewish self-defense camp run by Betar in Hunter, New York