What Zionist icon Trumpeldor said just before 'It is good to die for our country' - and what he meant

What was the other phrase the one-armed war hero used throughout his life until he died in battle and became a mainstay of Zionist mythology?

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What Zionist icon Trumpeldor said just before 'It is good to die for our country' - and what he meant

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Ofer Aderet

10:09 PM • April 24 2026 IDT

What if on Memorial Day we could ask early Zionist leader Joseph Trumpeldor, 106 years after his death in the Battle of Tel Hai, "What is the solution to our misfortune, where shall we turn and what are we to do in this darkness?" How would he reply?

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