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Chaim Weizmann

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Noun1.Chaim Weizmann - Israeli statesman who persuaded the United States to recognize the new state of Israel and became its first president (1874-1952)Chaim Weizmann - Israeli statesman who persuaded the United States to recognize the new state of Israel and became its first president (1874-1952)


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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.
[10] Wilkansky's reports to London prompted Chaim Weizmann to enlist Mead's help in planning Zionist agriculture in Palestine.
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.
 
 
 
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