Chaim Weizmann first used a pure microbiological culture in an industrial process, that of manufacturing corn starch using Clostridium acetobutylicum, to produce acetone, which the United Kingdom desperately needed to manufacture explosives during World War I.

Dr. Chaim Weizmann wrote in his autobiography Trial and Error that Palestine had been excluded from the areas that should have been Arab and independent.

One of the main proponents of a Jewish homeland in Palestine was Chaim Weizmann, the leading spokesperson for organized Zionism in Britain.

Chaim Weizmann and Nahum Sokolow, the principal Zionist leaders based in London, had asked for the reconstitution of Palestine as " the " Jewish national home.

This included a letter of apology written to Chaim Weizmann for earlier statements he had made.

In 1918 Chaim Weizmann, president of the British Zionist Federation, formed a Zionist Commission, which went to Palestine to promote Zionist objectives there.

Chaim Weizmann was the leader of both the Zionist Organisation and the Jewish Agency until 1929.

* 1919 – At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.

* 1948 – Chaim Weizmann is elected the first President of Israel.

* May 16 – Chaim Weizmann is elected as the first President of Israel.

Vera Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann, Herbert Samuel, Lloyd George, Ethel Snowden, and Philip Snowden

These hopes were expressed in the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, which was signed by soon-to-be Iraqi ruler Faisal I and the Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, which called for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Acetone for the cordite industry during late World War I was eventually produced through the efforts of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, considered to be the father of industrial fermentation.

January 18: Faisal-Weizmann Agreement between Emir Faisal ( son of the King of Hejaz, Sharif of Mecca Sayyid Hussein bin Ali ), and Chaim Weizmann ( later President of the World Zionist Organization ).

Iranian minister Reza Saffinia visiting the home of Israeli president Chaim Weizmann, 1950.

Many sought asylum abroad ; thousands did manage to leave, but as Chaim Weizmann wrote in 1936, " The world seemed to be divided into two parts — those places where the Jews could not live and those where they could not enter.

He was found guilty but pardoned by President Chaim Weizmann.

Two of the distilleries were sold to Commercial Solvents Corporation, which acquired the rights to produce acetone from Chaim Weizmann in exchange for royalties.

In September 1948, Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann, attended a conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

Finally, soon after receiving a visit from his friend Chaim Weizmann, Balfour died at Fisher's Hill on 19 March 1930.

At the outbreak of World War II, he went to work for Chaim Weizmann at the World Zionist Organization in London from December 1939.

The first presidential election took place on 16 February 1949, and the winner was Chaim Weizmann.

Some were also distinguished in other fields, for example, Chaim Weizmann was a leading research chemist who founded the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot ; Zalman Shazar was an author, poet, and journalist ; and Chaim Herzog was a military leader, attorney, and diplomat.

He quit the mainstream Zionist movement in 1923, however, due to differences of opinion between him and its chairman, Chaim Weizmann, and established the new revisionist party called Alliance of Revisionists-Zionists and its youth movement, Betar ( a Hebrew acronym for the " League of Joseph Trumpeldor ").

However, the controversy was rendered moot when the British government vetoed it, and the World Zionist Organization's chairman, Chaim Weizmann, dismissed it.

He quit the latter group in 1923, however, due to differences of opinion with its chairman, Chaim Weizmann.

The chairman of the Jewish National Fund, Nehemiah De Lieme, refused to pay for the land, arguing that it was beyond the budget of the Fund, but he was overruled by the Zionist organization and in particular Chaim Weizmann.

; 1921: Chaim Weizmann becomes new President of the WZO at the 12th Zionist Congress ( the first since World War I ).

On 3 January 1919, Faisal and Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization signed the Faisal – Weizmann Agreement for Arab-Jewish cooperation, in which Faisal conditionally accepted the Balfour Declaration based on the fulfillment of British wartime promises of development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and on which subject he made the following statement:

His father, Leo Antschel, was a Zionist who advocated his son's education in Hebrew at Safah Ivriah, an institution previously convinced of the wisdom of assimilation into Austrian culture, and one which favourably received Chaim Weizmann of the World Zionist Organization in 1927.

The original Jerusalem community, founded by emigrees from Ukraine before World War II and built around the Breslov Yeshiva in Mea Shearim founded by Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Rosen in 1953, still exists.

One of its members and the youngest ever admitted to the Academy at 17, Chaim Goldberg ( 1917 – 2004 ), also from Kazimierz Dolny was a discovery of Dr. Paul Silberstein who later developed in the painter of the village and the Jewish life before it was snuffed out in World War II.

Their fears were largely discounted, however, by the Chief Administrative Officer General Louis Bols, Governor Sir Ronald Storrs and General Edmund Allenby, despite a warning from the President of the World Zionist Organization Dr. Chaim Weizmann that " pogrom is in the air ", supported by assessments available to Storrs.

The Faisal – Weizmann Agreement was signed on 3 January 1919, by Emir Faisal ( son of the King of Hejaz ), who was for a short time King of the Arab Kingdom of Syria or Greater Syria in 1920, and was King of the Kingdom of Iraq ( today, Iraq ) from August 1921 to 1933, and Chaim Weizmann ( later President of the World Zionist Organization ) as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 settling disputes stemming from World War I.

Attendees included Chaim Weizmann, as President of the World Zionist Organization, David Ben-Gurion as Chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, and Nahum Goldmann as a member of the Executive of the Zionist Organization of America.

On January 3, 1919, future president of the World Zionist Organization Chaim Weizmann and the future King Faisal I of Iraq signed the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement for Arab-Jewish cooperation in the Middle East in which Faisal conditionally accepted the Balfour Declaration based on the fulfillment of British wartime promises of development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Historian Robert Wistrich addressed the issue in a 1984 lecture delivered in the home of Israeli President Chaim Herzog, in which he argued that a " new anti-Semitic anti-Zionism " was emerging, distinguishing features of which were the equation of Zionism with Nazism and the belief that Zionists had actively collaborated with Nazis during World War II.

For years, both before and during World War I, Marie Vassilieff also operated what was registered as a private club that acted as a canteen for artists where food and drink were provided as cheaply as possible to struggling painters such as, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Pablo Picasso, and others.

Chaim Weizmann, the President of the World Zionist Organization, offered the British government full cooperation of the Jewish community in Palestine.

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* ed., Present-day Antisemitism: Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar of the Study Circle on World Jewry under the auspices of the President of Israel, Chaim Herzog, Jerusalem 29 – 31 December 1985.

In 1931 he was elected President of the World Zionist Congress, and served in that capacity until 1935, when he was succeeded by Chaim Weizmann.