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Chaim Weizmann

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - Chaim Weizmann

Chaim Azriel Weizmann (Hebrew: חיים ויצמן) (also: Chaijim W., Haim W.) (November 27, 1874 – November 9, 1952) chemist, statesman, President of the World Zionist Organization, first President of Israel (elected May 16, 1948, served 1949 - 1952) and founder of a research institute in Israel which eventually became the Weizmann Institute of Science. Weizmann was born in a small village Motol (Motyli, now Motal') near Pinsk (Russian Empire, now in Belarus) and graduated in chemistry from the University of Fribourg in Swi ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - 1952

1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1952 - Events. January 8 - West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders. January 24 - Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria. January 24 - Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada. 1952 - February. February 2 - A tropical storm forms just north of Cuba moving northeast. The storm makes landfall in southe ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - Balfour Declaration 1917

The Balfour Declaration was a letter dated November 2, 1917 from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour on behalf of the British government, to Lord Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation, a private Zionist organization. The letter stated the position agreed on at a British Cabinet meeting on October 31, 1917, that the British government supported Zionist plans for a "national home" in Palestine for the Jewish people, and, most ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - Amos Oz

Amos Oz (born May 4, 1939), birth name Amos Klausner, is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva. Since 1967, he has been a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Amos Oz - Life. He was born in Jerusalem, where he grew up at No. 18 Amos Street in the Kerem Avraham neighborhood. Roughly half of his fiction is set within a mile of where he grew up. His parents, Yehuda Arieh Klausne ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - British Mandate of Palestine

The British Mandate of Palestine was a territory in the Middle East including the modern territories of Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip, formerly belonging to the Ottoman Empire, which the League of Nations entrusted to the United Kingdom to administer in the aftermath of World War I as a Mandate Territory. British Mandate of Palestine - Establishment of British League of Nations mandate. British interest in Zionism dates to the rise in importance of the British Empire's South Asian enterpr ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - 1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War is referred to as the "War of Independence" (Hebrew: מלחמת העצמאות) or as the "War of Liberation" (Hebrew: מלחמת השחרור) by Israelis. For Palestinians, the war marked the beginning of the events referred to as "The Catastrophe" ("al Nakba," Arabic: النكبة ). It was the first in a series of wars in the Arab-Israeli conflict. It established the state of Israel as an independent state, dividing the remaining areas of the British Mandate of Palestine into areas co ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - 1948

1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). 1948 - Events. 1948 - January-February. January 1 - Nationalisation of UK railways to form British Railways. Arab militants lay siege to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. First day of the Italian republican constitution. January 4 - Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom. January 5 - Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (Tou ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - Zeev Jabotinsky

Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky (alternatively Zhabotinski) (Hebrew: זאב ז'בוטינסקי, Russian: Зеэв (Владимир Евгеньевич) Жаботинский; October 18, 1880 - August 4, 1940) was a Zionist leader, author, orator, soldier, and founder of the Jewish Legion in World War I. Zeev Jabotinsky - Early life. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, he was raised in a traditional Jewish home and learned Torah, Tanakh, ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - Acetone

In chemistry, acetone (also known as propanone, dimethyl ketone, 2-propanone, propan-2-one and beta-ketopropane) is the simplest representative of the ketones. Acetone is a colorless mobile flammable liquid with melting point at -95.4 °C and boiling point at 56.53 °C. It has a relative density of 0.819 (at 0 °C). It is readily soluble in water, ethanol, ether, etc., and itself serves as an important solvent. The most familiar household use of acetone is as the active ingredie ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - Clostridium acetobutylicum

Clostridium acetobutylicum (C. acetobutylicum) is a commercially valuable bacterium, included in the genus Clostridium. It is sometimes called the "Weizmann Organism", after Chaim Weizmann (or Charles in the USA), who in 1916 helped discover how C. acetobutylicum culture could be used to produce acetone, butanol and ethanol from starch using the A.B.E. ( Acetone, Butanol,Ethanol) process to enable industrial purposes such as gunpowder and TNT production. The A.B.E. process was an industry standard un ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (February 8, 1868 – August 27, 1937) was a British banker and zoologist from the international Rothschild financial dynasty. Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild - Education and zoology. Educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, from 1889 to 1908 he worked for the family firm of NM Rothschild and Sons, in London, though his greatest passion was zoology, particularly the collecting and taxonomy of birds and butterflies. He participated in, and funded, expedi ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - Clostridium

Clostridium acetobutylicum Clostridium aerotolerans Clostridium botulinum Clostridium colicanis Clostridium difficile Clostridium formicaceticum Clostridium novyi Clostridium perfringens Clostridium tetani etc. Clostridium is a large genus of Gram-positive bacteria, belonging to the Firmicutes. They are obligate anaerobes capable of producing endospores. Individual cells are rod-shaped, which gives them th ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - Vilnius

Vilnius (pronunciation ▶ (help·info), Belarusian: Вільня, Polish: Wilno, Russian: Вильнюс, formerly Вильно, German: Wilna; see also other alternative names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of over 540,000 in 2003. It is the capital of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - Zionism

Zionism is a political movement and an ideology that supports a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel, where the Jewish nation originated and where Jewish kingdoms and self-governing states existed at various times in history. While Zionism is based heavily upon religious tradition linking the Jewish people to the Land of Israel, the modern movement was originally secular, beginning largely as a response to ram ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - Anti-Zionism

Anti-Zionism is a term used to describe several different political and religious points of view. Anti-Zionist positions have in common some form of opposition to Zionism, but their diversity in terms of motivation and expression is so great that anti-Zionism cannot be seen as a single phenomenon. This article examines opposition to Zionism both historically and as it currently exists. Zionism is variously defined as a Jewish national liberation movement that holds that a Jewish nation has existed for thousands of ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia - World Zionist Organization

Land of Israel Districts · Cities · Transportation Dead Sea · Red Sea · Sea of Galilee Mediterranean · Negev · Judea · Samaria Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · Haifa Zionism · Timeline ·Aliyah · Herzl Balfour · Mandate · 1947 UN Plan Independence · Austerity · Ma'abarot Lavon Affair · Eichmann Trial 1948 War · 1949 Armistice · Suez War Six-Day War · Attrition War Yom Kippur War · Lebanon War Peace treaties with: Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan Timeline · Peace process · Peace camp 1s ...

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia II - World Zionist Organization - Membership and delegations

Membership in the WZO was open to all Jews, and the right to vote for delegates to the Congresses was secured by the purchase of the Zionist Shekel. Delegations from all around the world, and from many different political backgrounds and religious traditions, took part in each Congress; delegations/parties were mainly grouped by ideology, rather than by geography. ...

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World Zionist Organization, World Zionist Organization - Membership and delegations, World Zionist Organization - Presidents of World Zionist Organization, World Zionist Organization - Chairmen of the Executive of World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Israel, World Zionist Organization - Sister organizations, World Zionist Organization - World Zionist Congress

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia II - List of Russian Jews - Historical figures

List of Russian Jews - Politicians. Alexey Arbatov, Russian politician & defence analyst Georgy Arbatov, Soviet politician, academic & political advisor Mikhail Fradkov, Prime Minister (Jewish father) Alexander Herzen, Socialist (Jewish mother) Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician Lev Kamenev (Jewish father) & Grigory Zinoviev, ruling triumvirate with Stalin Maxim Litvinov, Soviet ambassador and Minister of Foreign Affairs Alex ...

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List of Russian Jews, List of Russian Jews - Historical figures, List of Russian Jews - Politicians, List of Russian Jews - Soldiers, List of Russian Jews - Other, List of Russian Jews - Scientists, List of Russian Jews - Natural scientists, List of Russian Jews - Social scientists, List of Russian Jews - Cultural figures, List of Russian Jews - Musicians, List of Russian Jews - Comedians, List of Russian Jews - Artists, List of Russian Jews - Authors and poets, List of Russian Jews - Business figures, List of Russian Jews - Entrepreneurs, List of Russian Jews - Oligarchs, List of Russian Jews - Sport figures, List of Russian Jews - Chess, List of Russian Jews - Other sports

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia II - Hebrew University of Jerusalem - History

One of the Zionist movement's dreams was to establish a Hebrew university in the land of Israel. The establishment of the university was proposed as far back as 1884 in the Kattowitz conference. A major supporter of the idea was Albert Einstein, a Jewish physicist, who later bequeathed all his property and writings to the University. The cornerstone for the university was laid in 1918, and, seven years later, on April 1, 1925, the Hebrew University campus on Mount Scopus of Jerusalem was opened at a gala ceremony attended, among other ...

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Campuses, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Mount Scopus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Givat Ram Edmund J. Safra, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Ein Kerem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Rehovot, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Distinguished faculty, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Alumni

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Chaim Weizmann: Encyclopedia II - Riots in Palestine of 1920 - Warning signs

During their annual spring festival Nebi Musa (Prophet Moses), Muslims march from Jerusalem on the road to Jericho to where they believe Moses is buried. In the years predating 1920, these processions were marked by intimidation of Christian communities on their way. After Emir Faisal I had agreed to the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine by signing the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the local leaders of the Palestinian Arab community, among them the Jerusalem Mayor Musa Khazi ...

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Riots in Palestine of 1920, Riots in Palestine of 1920 - Warning signs, Riots in Palestine of 1920 - April 4-7 1920 in the Old City, Riots in Palestine of 1920 - The aftermath

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