Hashomer Hatzair (, also transliterated Hashomer Hatsair or HaShomer HaTzair, translating as The Young Guard) is a Socialist–Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in Galicia, Austria-Hungary, and was also the name of the group's political party in the Yishuv in the pre-1948 British Mandate of Palestine (see Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party of Palestine).