Vera Weizmann, wife of Chaim Weizmann, the first president of the State of Israel, was a medical doctor and a Zionist activist.
Vera Weizmann, c. 1929
Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa Einstein (centre) with Zionist leaders, including Chaim Weizmann and Vera Weizmann, Menahem Ussishkin, and Ben-Zion Mossinson, on arrival in New York City in 1921
Vera and Chaim Weizmann, Herbert Samuel, David Lloyd George, Ethel Snowden, and Philip Snowden
Vera Weizmann, 1946
Chaim Azriel Weizmann was a Russian-born biochemist, 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 was instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration and later convincing the United States government to recognize the newly formed State of Israel.
Weizmann in 1949
Weizmann in 1900
Ben-Zion Mossinson [he], Albert Einstein, Chaim Weizmann, Menachem Ussishkin on SS Rotterdam, 1921
Chaim Weizmann in 1926