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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).

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Chaim Weizmann wrote to Churchill protesting that "the fields of Gilead, Moab and Edom [east of the Jordan]…are historically and geographically and economically linked to Palestine, and it is upon these fields, now that the rich plains of the north have been taken from Palestine and given to France, that the success of the Jewish National Home must largely rest…."
2, 1917) was a statement issued by the British foreign secretary, Arthur James Balfour, in a letter to Lionel Walter Rothschild, a leader of British Jewry, as urged by the Russian Jewish Zionist leaders Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow.
Martin Buber and Chaim Weizmann played a critical role in its creation; it was placed in Haifa in part because Theodor Herzl had envisioned the northern city as "a great park.
Lawrence of Arabia, who led the British-sponsored Arab Revolt against the Turks, is as a central to the Schneer's narrative as is Chaim Weizmann, the British Zionist leader and renowned scientist who led the diplomatic campaign to enlist Great Britain's support for a Jewish Homeland in Palestine.
In Yonatan Silverman's article on NIH (Fall 2010 edition), he refers to Chaim Weizmann's belief that NIH had an important role to play in the Zionist Movement, particularly with respect to forming an alliance with the British.
Emerging as Zionist leader was Chaim Weizmann, a Russian-born chemist whose discovery of a fermentation method for a key ingredient in explosives was important to the war effort and helped win him contact with David Lloyd George before he became British prime minister.
Meanwhile, Lord Weidenfeld wrote an article entitled "Two Rights and Two Wrongs", in which he quoted Chaim Weizmann, the first Israeli president, by saying: "The Jewish-Palestinian problem is not a conflict of right and wrong, but one of two rights and two wrongs...Our wrong is the smaller one."
(Chaim Weizmann, Published in Judische Rundschau, No.
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After gaining immense fame for his scientific breakthroughs, he was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952 after the death of the country's first president, Chaim Weizmann. In reality, while Einstein was sympathetic to the Zionist cause, he repeatedly warned that a "narrow nationalism" may arise if a Jewish-only state was founded and peaceful co-existence with the Palestinians was not achieved.
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