Hatzohar (), full name Brit HaTzionim HaRevizionistim (, ), 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. 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, , 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. 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. In 1934, they went on to establish ', and in 1938, the daily HaMashkif. The party had briefly also been associated with Doar HaYom.
During the 1932 Hatzohar conference in Tel Aviv, Abba Ahimeir said it was a disaster that Zionism "was educated and developed in line with the liberal point of view." One delegate, Leone Carpi, gave a Nazi salute as he entered the hall, which was met with similar salutes from some of the other delegates.