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Chaim Weizmann

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Weizmann, Chaim 

Born Nov. 27, 1874, near Pinsk; died Nov. 9, 1952, in Rehovot, Israel. Governmental figure of Israel. Born into the family of a lumber merchant.

Weizmann received his education in Russia, Germany, and Switzerland and was a professor of chemistry. He lived in Britain from 1903 until the end of World War II. Weizmann was a leader of the Zionist movement. He was president of the World Zionist Organization from 1920 to 1931 and from 1935 to 1946, and of the Jewish Agency for Palestine from 1929 to 1931 and from 1935 to 1946. He was the first president of the state of Israel (1948-52).
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In desperation he turned to brilliant chemist Chaim Weizmann, whom he had met in 1903 when, as a solicitor, he was asked to draft the constitution for a new State of Zion, to be set up in Uganda as a national home for the Jews of the Dispersion.
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[10] Wilkansky's reports to London prompted Chaim Weizmann to enlist Mead's help in planning Zionist agriculture in Palestine.
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On July 24, 1918, with Jerusalem still within artillery range of the Turkish army, Chaim Weizmann presided over the cornerstone laying ceremony of the University on Mount Scopus on a plot of land, formerly the Sir John Grey-Hill estate, purchased barely six months earlier by the Zionists.
The view from Scopus: Judah L. Magnes and the early years of the ... by Goren, Arthur A. / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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