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Israeli president and scientist
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Also known as: Chaim Azriel Weizmann
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Julian Louis Meltzer
Executive Vice-Chairman, Yad Chaim Weizmann National Memorial, and Director, Weizmann Archives, Rehovot, Israel, 1966–75.
Julian Louis Meltzer
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Chaim Azriel Weizmann
Born:
Nov. 27, 1874, Motol, Pol., Russian Empire [now in Belarus]
Died:
Nov. 9, 1952, Reḥovot, Israel (aged 77)
Title / Office:
president (1949-1952), Israel

Chaim Weizmann (born Nov. 27, 1874, Motol, Pol., Russian Empire [now in Belarus]—died Nov. 9, 1952, Reḥovot, Israel) was the first president of the new nation of Israel (1949–52), who was for decades the guiding spirit behind the World Zionist Organization. Chaim Azriel Weizmann was born of humble parents in November 1874, in Motol, a backwater hamlet in the western Russian empire, the third of 15 children of Ezer Weizmann, a lumber transporter. Motol lay close to dense forests, surroundings that instilled in the boy a love of trees that was to persist the rest of his life. He spent ...(100 of 1216 words)

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