Ze'ev Jabotinsky, namesake of the man who is considered by many to be on a par with Herzl as a great Zionist thinker and leader, announced officially on Sunday that he will be running for a spot on Likud's list for the Knesset, in the party primaries scheduled to take place December 8.
In a joint news conference with Jabotinsky, Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu said that he was somewhat overcome with excitement, to be sharing the stage with the grandson of the man who founded the Herut movement, which later became the Likud. The news conference came a week after another Likud 'prince,' Benny Begin, son of Herut leader and former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, announced that he too was returning to the Likud.
For the uninitiated
1. Zev Jabotinsky, the grandfather of, 1880-1940, founded the Zionist Revisionist Party in 1925.
2. Menachem Begin, the father of, 1913-1992, was head of the Betar Youth Movement in Poland, Commander ofd the Irgun and founder and long-time chairman of the Herut and later Likud parties.
3. Ben-Tzion Netanyahu, the father of, 1912 - , was a secretary of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, NZO activist and historian.
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