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.

Chaim Weizmann, chairman of the World Zionist Organization and soon to be the first President of Israel, endorsed the decision, after reportedly asking " What are they waiting for, the idiots?

* 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.

Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in particular focused on the ' purpose of creation ' and how the will of God was to bring creation into perfection and adhesion with this upper force.

The Gaon affirmed Rabbi Chaim ’ s assertion, and said that he once began to create a person when he was a child, under the age of 13, but during the process he received a sign from Heaven ordering him to desist because of his tender age.

In collaboration with the late Chaim Potok, Kushner co-edited Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary, the new official Torah commentary of the Conservative movement, which was jointly published in 2001 by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Jewish Publication Society.

The Orthodox Jewish community was led by Rabbi Chaim Pinchos Lubinsky.

Rabbi Chaim Weiner succeeded Louis Jacobs as head of the New London Synagogue, but when Weiner was appointed head of the new European Masorti Beth Din in 2005, Jacobs returned.

Rabbi Chaim Weiner ( Masorti UK ), the first rabbi to provide long-distance communal supervision, was succeeded in 2009 by rabbi David Soetendorp.

* Chaim Perelman was a philosopher of law, who studied, taught, and lived most of his life in Brussels.

This method was first recorded, though without explicit reference to Aristotle, by Isaac Campanton ( d. Spain, 1463 ) in his Darkhei ha-Talmud (" The Ways of the Talmud "), and is also found in the works of Moses Chaim Luzzatto.

Chaim Rickover was born to Abraham Rickover and Rachel ( née Unger ) Rickover, a Jewish family in Maków Mazowiecki of Poland, at that time ruled by the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II.

" At the age of four, Peres was taken by his father to Radun ' to receive a blessing from Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan ( The Chofetz Chaim ).

In 1982 his major work, Mekor Chaim, was finally published posthumously by Mechon Yerushalayim.

:" The view that God does not have foreknowledge of moral decisions which was advanced by ibn Daud and Gersonides ( Levi ben Gershom ) is not quite as isolated as Rabbi Bleich indicates, and it enjoys the support of two highly respected Achronim, Rabbi Yeshayahu Horowitz ( Shelah haKadosh ) and Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar ( Or haHayim haKadosh ).

In May 2009, a unique and unusual settlement regarding Chaim Soutine's iconic painting entitled Piece de Boeuf ( Piece of Beef c. 1923 ) was approved by Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the Southern District of New York.

His circle of close friends, which included Ilya Ehrenburg, Chaim Soutine, Amedeo Modigliani and Modigliani's wife Jeanne Hébuterne, Max Jacob, gallery owner Léopold Zborowski, and Moise Kisling, was captured for posterity by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska ( Marevna ) in her painting " Homage to Friends from Montparnasse " ( 1962 ).< ref >

Organised Torah study was revolutionised by Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, a disciple of the Vilna Gaon ( an influential 18th century leader of Judaism ).

The Polish Jews were divided into many Kollelim ; Kollel Polen headed by Rabbi Chaim Elozor Wax ; Kollel Vilna Zamutch was under different leadership ; and the Galicians were incorporated under Kolel Chibas Yerushalayim.

Zundel Salant was a student of Rabbis Chaim Volozhin and Akiva Eiger whose profoundly good-hearted and humble behavior and simple lifestyle attracted Yisrael Salanter's interest, and Zundel Salant allegedly urged Salanter to focus himself on Musar.

* Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, in 1939, stated that the Nazi persecution of the Jews was the fault of non-Orthodox Jews ( Achiezer, volume III, Vilna 1939 ), in the introduction.

The psychiatric diagnosis post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) was coined in the mid 1970s, in part through the efforts of anti-Vietnam War activists and the anti war group Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Chaim F. Shatan.

Eban's brother-in-law was the late Chaim Herzog, the sixth president of Israel.