Chaim Weizmann
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Chaim Azriel Weizmann was an Israeli statesman, biochemist, and Zionist leader who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 Febr
Weizmann in 1949
Weizmann in 1900
Ben-Zion Mossinson, Albert Einstein, Chaim Weizmann, Menachem Ussishkin on SS Rotterdam, 1921
Chaim Weizmann in 1926
David Ben-Gurion
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David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel. As head of the Jewish Agency from 1935, and later president of the Jewish Agency Executive, he was th
Chaim Weizmann
…time, recommended partition, but the proposal was declared unworkable and formally rejected by the government. The two main Jewish leaders, Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion had convinced the Zionist Congress to approve equivocally the Peel recommendations as a basis for more negotiation. This was the first official mention…
Ben-Gurion in 1960
Poalei Zion's "Ezra" group in Płońsk, 1905. David Grün (David Ben-Gurion) in the first row, third on the right
Ben-Gurion with Rachel Nelkin and members of Ezra on eve of their departure to Palestine, August 1906; his father and stepmother sitting in the windows
Ben-Gurion working at Rishon Lezion winery (front row, 6th from right), 1908