Binyamin Ze'ev von Weisl (1896 – 1974) was one of the founders of the Revisionist

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 movement and a leader in the Zionist

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 struggle for establishing a Jewish

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 state. He was writer

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 and a journalist

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, a physician

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 and medical researcher, a military man and an original military strategist

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, an Austrian noble

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 and a world expert in Islam

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.

Dr. Wolfgang von Weisl was born in Vienna, Austria

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, in 1896. His father, Dr. Ernst Von Weisl, who received the ennobling predicate "von" from Emperor Franz Josef

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, was among the first Jews to join Theodor Herzl

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 in his Zionist movement. For his son, Wolfgang, this was a call to the flag, and a cause to which he dedicated his life. For Weisl, junior, Zionism meant living in what is now called the land of Israel

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(and then Palestine), participation in its building and defence, and the struggle to ensure its independence toward the Zion Return.