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Chaim Weizmann

Chaim Weizmann. By Rishon Beard With Some Help From Olivia Flamm. Chaim Weizmann. I 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.

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Chaim Weizmann

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  1. ChaimWeizmann By Rishon Beard With Some Help From Olivia Flamm

  2. Chaim Weizmann • I 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.”

  3. ChaimWeizmann This is ChaimWeizmann 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.

  4. What's Next?

  5. ChaimWeizmann Weizmann 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.

  6. Chaim Weitzman This is Chaim Weitzman in 1944. Weizmann opposed the the anti-British terror campaign of the Irgun fighters and their leader MenachemBegin.

  7. 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.

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

  9. The End

  10. Resources • http://homepage.mac.com/oldtownman/ww1/images/weizmann.jpg • http://cojs.org/cojswiki/images/2/2f/Chaim_Weizmann.jpg • http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/sites/default/files/images/the-beginning/Dr.%20Chaim%20Weizmann.jpg • http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/sites/default/files/images/the-beginning/Graves%20of%20Vera%20and%20Chaim%20Weizmann%20(left%20and%20right,%20respectively)3.jpg

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