The East of the Jordan, Two Banks to the Jordan, is a poem written by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, which type of leader, Zionism (Hebrew: צִיּוֹנוּת‎ "Tsiyyonut" ] after "Zion") is the national movement of the Jewish people that supports the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the historic Land of Israel, roughly corresponding to Canaan, the Holy Land, or the region of Palestine?
The East Bank of the Jordan The East of the Jordan (Hebrew: שמאל הירדן‎ ‎ , "Smol Ha'Yarden", also known as שתי גדות לירדן, "Shtei Gadot La'Yarden", lit. Two Banks to the Jordan) is a poem written by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the Revisionist Zionist leader, a song that became one of the most known leading songs of the Revisionist Zionist youth movement, Betar. The song includes four Stanzas. Each stanza ends with the following line which is the main political message and theme of the poem:
Binyamin Eliav Binyamin Eliav (b. Riga, 1909, d. Petah Tikva. July 30, 1974) was an Israeli politician, diplomat, author and editor. One of the founders of Betar, he was a close associate of revisionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky, but later became a member of the labour party, Mapai.