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Chaim Azriel Weizmann was a Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as President of the Zionist Organization and later as the first President of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann convinced the United States government to recognize the newly formed state of Israel.

Weizmann was also a biochemist who developed the acetone–butanol–ethanol fermentation process, which produces acetone through bacterial fermentation. His acetone production method was of great importance for the British war industry during World War I. He founded the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel and was instrumental in the establishment of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

✵ 27. November 1874 – 9. November 1952  •  Other names Chaim Azriel Weizmann
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Chaim Weizmann Quotes

“[I]t is not true–no, it is not true–that we have uprooted the Arabs. We have not uprooted them; we have shown them the way to a better life, and we shall continue to do this until they understand that we have a common interest in reviving the Middle East, and that this task can be achieved only on the basis of a strong Jewish Palestine.”

Chaim Weizmann

[Rouhana, Nadim N., Huneidi, Sahar S., Israel and its Palestinian Citizens: Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State, Zionist Theories of Peace in the Pre-state Era Legacies of Dissimulation and Israel’s Arab Minority, Lustick, Ian S., Cambridge University Press, 2016, 9781107045316, 10.1017/cbo9781107045316, 53, https://www.sas.upenn.edu/polisci/sites/www.sas.upenn.edu.polisci/files/Lustick_Zionist%20theories%20of%20peace%20in%20Pre-state%20Era.pdf], Weizmann’s address to the 19th Zionist Congress in Lucerne,Switzerland, August 27, 1935, in ibid.:81

“There is no official anti-Semitism in Russia; anti-Semitism in Russia is a crime against the State.”

Chaim Weizmann

Source: The Jewish People and Palestine. London: Zionist Organization, 1939. p. 7

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