There could be no national revival without moral and physical strength, and no lasting peace without respect—earned through resilience and integrity.
Moshe Phillips
PM Netanyahu speaking at a memorial ceremony for Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, July 24, 2025. Screengrab via Youtube [Cropped]
“So, today, I would like to reflect on these three sometimes-forgotten American virtues—honor, tradition and optimism.”
With those words, historian and pundit Victor Davis Hanson began the essence of his 2025 commencement address at Hillsdale College in Michigan. Although he was speaking of American ideals, these chosen virtues resonate powerfully in the life and legacy of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the towering Zionist leader whose death we commemorate this August—85 years since he passed away in Hunter, N.Y., in 1940.





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