Born in 1874 in what he himself described as “one of the darkest and most forlorn corners of the Pale of Settlement,” Chaim Weizmann rose to become the confidant of world leaders and ...

Beginning in 1896, in response to racial antisemitism, religious bigotry, social discrimination, economic hardships and persistent pogroms, Jews initiated a movement to re-create their ancient ...

Leaders of the Zionist movement in America today joined Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in expressing “profound satisfaction with the message of hope and ...

Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, arrived in the United States late yesterday afternoon on the steamer Aquitania. On his fifth visit to the United States the Zionist ...

A magisterial biography of Israel's first president. In Chaim Weizmann: A Biography, Jehuda Reinharz and Motti Golani show how Weizmann, a leader of the World Zionist Organization who became the first ...

Chaim Weizmann. Ezer Weizman later became Israel’s seventh president, which meant that Herzog would have attended Reuma’s funeral regardless of the Weizman connection to his grandfather.