Chaim Weizmann

Chaim WeizmannBy Rishon Beard With Some Help From Olivia

Flamm

Chaim WeizmannI was born on November 27, 1874 in Motol, White

Russia. My parents were Oizer and Rachel, and I had 12

brothers and sisters. In 1901, I married Vera Chaztman and we had two sons Benjamin and Michel.

I was a scientist, Zionist statesman, and the first president of Israel.

I discovered a way to manufacture Acetone for explosives, and that made me very helpful to the British during World War I.

The British rewarded me with the “Balfour Declaration.”

Chaim Weizmann• This is Chaim

Weizmann in 1921.• He visited the United

States with Albert Einstein.

• He was elected president of the World Zionist Organization.

• American Zionists, such as Louis Brandeis and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, who sought complete autonomy for a homeland opposed Weizmann's alliance with Britain.

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Chaim WeizmannWeizmann resigned his position as president of the Zionist Organization to protest British treatment of Jews in Palestine, but still hoped his alliance with the British would lead to a homeland. Rabbi Wise however told Weizmann, ''You have sat too long at English feasts.''

Chaim Weizmann in 1930.

Chaim Weitzman• This is Chaim

Weitzman in 1944.

• Weizmann opposed the the anti-British terror campaign of the Irgun fighters and their leader Menachem Begin.

Chaim Weizmann• He dedicated himself to

saving Jews from the Nazis during WW II.

• He lost a son in a plane crash. His son was a fighter in the British army.

• Earlier in Israel, Weizmann worked with Arab leaders on cooperation between Arabs and Jews .

• The Israeli Science Institute in Rechovot, Israel was named the “Weizmann Institute.”

• He was the first president of the newly established state of Israel.

• Weizmann died in 1952.

This is Where Chaim Weizmann was buried, in the backyard of the Weizmann institute in Rechovot, Israel.

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