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Zvi Segal
Zvi
Segal
was a
Revisionist Zionist
activist and a
signatory
of the
Israeli declaration of independence
.
A member of the
Irgun
, Segal was
deported to Eritrea
by the
British
during the
Mandate era
. He served as
vice-president
of the Revisionist movement from
1940
until 1948, when he
signed
Israel's declaration of independence
. He was
immediately
co-opted
into the
Provisional State Council
and
sat
on the finance
committee
; however, after
Menachem Begin
founded
the rival
Herut
movement, Segal
left politics
and
turned
to the
real estate business
.