The Idea of the Welfare State According to Ze’ev Jabotinsky

Abstract

The topic of the present work is the attitude of one of the Zionist thinkers at the beginning of the 20th century,
Ze’ev Jabotinsky, to the idea of the welfare state. The relations between liberalism and social democracy in the
research of democracy are relations of rivalry between two different approaches that discuss the degree of
governmental regulation that should be implemented on the life of the citizen, also in the economic field. Jabotinsky was the ideological thinker of the secular right in the Land of Israel and in Jewish communities around the world, and his thinking still has dominant importance on the different actions of the political organizations that belong to the Israeli right today. Therefore, this research study will examine his manner of reference to the topic.