Betar Song - Ze'ev Jabotinsky

Poetic Hebrew is extremely difficult to translate directly, an often includes dual-meanings for its words.
All translation is Interpretative given the context of the words.

Context:
Ze'ev Jabotinsky has been one of the most prominent leaders of the Jewish national movement during the early 20th century.
Growing up in Ukraine under the Russian empire he was exposed to the pogroms and struggles of the Jewish community.


He was the leader of the Jewish Legion, fighting for the British Empire in WW1, as well as the founder of the Irgun, which later waged an armed fight against the British.

Opponents of what was the mainstream Labour Zionist movement, the right-wing Zionists had many complex viewpoints, often confusing when viewed from a modern lens.
A mix of liberal ideas and what is in the modern sense a very social and welfare-oriented goal.


An important sentiment that they tried to nurture is one of sacrifice and struggle, in what they perceived as an inevitable fight for the homeland.


Betar was a youth organization and an ideological force in the diaspora meant to encourage those values and prepare a generation for the establishment of an independent Jewish state.
The name "Betar" is a Hebrew acronym for the "Covenant of Joseph Trumpeldor" as well as the name of an ancient and well known Jewish fort from the time of the Bar Kokhba revolt.