Chaim Weizmann

2026· 2 entries

Aug 21, 2026Documented record86% confidence

“I have no doubt that the amended text of the declaration will be again submitted to the President and it would be most invaluable if the President would accept it without reservation and would recommend the granting of the declaration now.[Italics in original.] When the British Foreign Office sent the draft to Wilson at about the same time, he turned it over to Brandeis for his comments. The Justice and his aides redrafted it in slightly stronger and cleaner language, substituting”

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Aug 21, 2026Documented record76% confidence

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“establish such a society in Palestine that Palestine shall be as Jewish as England is English, or America American.”

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2025· 5 entries

Nov 16, 2025Documented record69% confidence

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The Forward: Chaim Weizmann

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Oct 1, 2025Documented record69% confidence

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Dr. Chaim Weizmann is to Visit South Africa

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Jul 4, 2025Reported claimRated misleading · fact checker

Chaim Weizmann

fact checker rated the claim “Satellite image shows near-total destruction of the Weizmann Institute building in Israel following the Iranian missile strike.” misleading.

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Jul 1, 2025Reported claimRated DW Fact check: False The image does not show Iran's counterattack on Israel, as it alleges, but instead depicts exactly the opposite—damage caused by Israel's attacks on Iran. Through a reverse image search, we found multiple sources (e.g., here and here) citing that the exact location is Iran's Tabriz base, an important missile facility in the northwest of the country. · DW

Chaim Weizmann

DW rated the claim “This post on X, with over 50,000 views at the time of writing, claims to show the Weizmann Institute in Israel after a missile strike by Iran.” DW Fact check: False The image does not show Iran's counterattack on Israel, as it alleges, but instead depicts exactly the opposite—damage caused by Israel's attacks on Iran. Through a reverse image search, we found multiple sources (e.g., here and here) citing that the exact location is Iran's Tabriz base, an important missile facility in the northwest of the country..

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May 16, 2025Documented record69% confidence

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Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Dr. Chaim Weizmann Elected President of Israel; Arab Attacks Continue

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1953· 1 entry

1953Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Chaim Weizmann

And was permitted to emigrate to Israel in 1956

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1952· 2 entries

Nov 9, 1952Documented record86% confidence

Chaim Weizmann

Died 1952-11-09.

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1952Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And was sentenced to five years imprisonment in Siberia

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1949· 3 entries

1949Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Chaim Weizmann

There were 20 researchers; twenty years later there were 400, and 500 students

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Jan 1, 1949Documented record84% confidence

Chaim Weizmann

Career landmark: President of Israel (1949–1952).

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1949Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Weizmann was nominated as Mapai's candidate for president

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1948· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1948Documented record84% confidence

Chaim Weizmann

Career landmark: President of the Provisional State Council (1948–1949).

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1947· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1947Documented record84% confidence

Chaim Weizmann

Awarded honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1947).

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1942· 1 entry

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Weizmann was invited by President Franklin D

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1940· 1 entry

1940Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Of over 2800 people living in Britain, which included Weizmann, who were to have been immediately arrested after an invasion of Britain had the ultimately abandoned Operation Sea Lion been successful

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1939· 2 entries

1939Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Chaim Weizmann

Weizmann was appointed as an honorary adviser to the British Ministry of Supply, using his extensive political expertise in the management of provisioning and supplies throughout the duration of the conflict

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1939Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Chaim Weizmann

A conference was established at St James's Palace when the government drew up the May 1939 White Paper which severely curtailed any spending in the Jewish Home Land

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1936· 3 entries

1936Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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And early 1937, Weizmann addressed the Peel Commission (set up by the returning Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin), whose job it was to consider the working of the British Mandate of Palestine

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Jan 1, 1936Documented record76% confidence

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“for whom the world is divided into places where they cannot live and places where they cannot enter.”

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1936Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Ze'ev Jabotinsky prepared the so-called "evacuation plan", which called for the evacuation of 1

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1934· 1 entry

1934Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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To the creation of the Daniel Sieff Research Institute (later renamed the Weizmann Institute of Science), which was financially supported by an endowment by Israel Sieff in memory of his late son

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1921· 3 entries

1921Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Chaim Weizmann

Weizmann played an important role in supporting Pinhas Rutenberg's successful bid to the British for an exclusive electric concession for Palestine, in spite of bitter personal and principled disputes between the two fig

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1921Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Weizmann went along with Albert Einstein for a fundraiser to establish the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and support the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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Jan 1, 1921Documented record86% confidence

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“There is no bridge between Washington and Pinsk.”

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1917· 1 entry

1917Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Chaim Weizmann

Expressed his view of Zionism in the following words,

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1915· 2 entries

1915Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Chaim Weizmann

At the J&W Nicholson & Co gin factory in Bow, London, so industrial scale production of acetone could begin in six British distilleries requisitioned for the purpose in early 1916

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1915Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Weizmann also began working with Sir Mark Sykes, who was looking for a member of the Jewish community for a delicate mission

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1910· 2 entries

1910Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Chaim Weizmann

With the help of haham Moses Gaster, who asked for papers from Herbert Samuel, the minister

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1910Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Became a British citizen when Winston Churchill as Home Secretary signed his papers, and held his British nationality until 1948, when he renounced it to assume his position as President of Israel

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1907· 1 entry

1907Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Chaim Weizmann

And while there, he helped organize the Palestine Land Development Company as a practical means of pursuing the Zionist dream, and to found the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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