The first volume of Jehuda Reinharz's definitive biography of Chaim Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader, met with widespread acclaim and won five major prizes. President Chaim ...

The first volume of Jehuda Reinharz's definitive biography of Chaim Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader, met with widespread acclaim and won five major prizes. President Chaim ...

Israel’s founding president, Chaim Weizmann, suffered from a sharp decline in mental health during the final decade of his life. After the loss of his son Michael in World War II, Weizmann took ...

Chaim Weizmann of Motol. Russia, son of Osher the timber merchant and Rachel, stood before the Knesset in Jerusalem, taking the oath of office as Israel’s first President in 2,000 years.

Born in 1874 in what he himself described as “one of the darkest and most forlorn corners of the Pale of Settlement,” Chaim Weizmann rose to become the confidant of world leaders and ...