Ze'ev Jabotinsky MBE (born Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky, 1880 - 1940), was a Russian Jewish Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Self-Defense Organization in Odessa. With Joseph Trumpeldor, he co-founded the Jewish Legion of the British army in World War I. Jabotinsky as an officer in the Jewish Legion with a Jewish officer in the French army duirng World War I