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Chaim Weizmann

Inset from 'Chaim Weizmann: A Biography,' published in May 2024. (courtesy)
November 27, 2024, 8:10 am
Israel’s 1st president disdained European Jews, ‘but he was ready to die for them’
Two historians co-author intimate portrait of fallible leader, born exactly 150 years ago, with new details on Chaim Weizmann’s struggles after losing his RAF pilot son in WWII
By Matt Lebovic
Footage posted to social media by anti-Israel group Palestine Action purports to show two activists stealing two busts, one of them of Israel's first president, from the University of Manchester, November 1, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 7, 2024, 10:55 am
Activists who stole ‘Weizmann’ busts got one of them wrong – university
Group claimed to nab 2 statues of Israel’s first president; officials say one was indeed his, but the other was of a 19th-century professor who supported women studying physics
By ToI Staff
Footage posted to social media by anti-Israel group Palestine Action purports to show two activists stealing two busts, one of them of Israel's first president, from the University of Manchester, November 1, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 6, 2024, 7:43 pm
UK anti-Israel activists behead stolen bust of Israel’s first president Weizmann
Group posts image of destroyed statue on social media, declares Weizmann’s ‘Zionist project’ will soon be dead
By ToI Staff
Footage posted to social media by anti-Israel group Palestine Action purports to show two activists stealing two busts, one of them of Israel's first president, from the University of Manchester, November 1, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 5, 2024, 1:35 pm
UK anti-Israel activists who ‘abducted’ busts of Weizmann post threats on social media
Palestine Action group shares photo of sculptures of Israel’s first president wrapped in keffiyeh scarves, threatens to send ‘an ear’ to US Jewish group that offered reward
By ToI Staff
Anti-Israel protesters hold flags and placards during a march in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza, in London, November 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
November 2, 2024, 7:30 pm
Thousands at London anti-Israel march; Manchester activists steal bust of Chaim Weizmann
Police arrest man in UK capital for sign they say ‘supported terror’; in Manchester, activists nab effigy of Israel’s first president on anniversary of Balfour Declaration
By ToI Staff
Journalist Oren Kessler, author of 'Palestine 1936.' (Hadas Parush)
August 18, 2023, 7:21 am
What Matters Now to author Oren Kessler: 1936 Palestine’s missed peace deal
In ‘Palestine 1936,’ Kessler delves into dusty archives to bring to life the overlooked saga of the 3-year Arab Revolt that arguably forms the roots of today’s Middle East conflict
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative: A German edition of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' ('My Struggle') on display at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, December 11, 2015. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP, File)
June 17, 2019, 8:26 am
Why ‘Mein Kampf’ was published in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, but not Hebrew – yet
A new book examines the trials and tribulations of translating Hitler’s toxic tome, which one MK in ’95 demanded be banned by the Health Ministry. Things may be about to change
By Raphael Ahren
WUJS participants represented 36 different countries from around the world. (Photo credit: Dana Levinson Steiner)
January 4, 2018, 10:30 am
In Jerusalem, a 94-year-old World Jewish Student Congress rediscovers its voice
The organization that once boasted members such as Freud, Einstein and Chaim Weizmann has fallen into debt and off the world stage. A group of new leaders hopes to change that
By Tracy Frydberg
From left, Lords Edmund Allenby, Arthur Balfour and Sir Herbert Samuel, at Hebrew University in 1925. (Library of Congress)
November 1, 2017, 2:46 pm
Balfour Declaration: A century old and as disputed as ever
Researchers at the Shalom Hartman Institute dive into what the media is and isn’t saying about the British letter’s meaning and impact upon its 100th anniversary
By Alan D. Abbey and Benjamin Emmerich
Illustrative: Then-British Home Secretary Winston Churchill on a visit to the British Mandate of Palestine in March 1921, nearly three decades before it became the Jewish state. (Churchill Museum)
November 1, 2017, 11:03 am
Ahead of Balfour 100, UK enshrines Churchill’s headstrong case for Israel
A new permanent exhibition highlights the British PM’s unflinching support for the Jewish state — even under heavy pressure from his government
By Robert Philpot
Sara Aaronsohn, one of the founders of the pre-British Mandate Palestine espionage ring NILI. (Public domain)
December 14, 2016, 10:29 am
With spy Sarah Aaronsohn’s suicide, Israeli history was rewritten, claims author
In 1915, the Aaronsohn siblings founded an espionage group in their village of Zichron Yaakov to help the Brits defeat the Turks. Outside of Israel, why was their tale whitewashed from history?
By JP O’ Malley
Mithqal al-Fayez, painted for the family from a 1920s black and white photo. (Courtesy)
September 3, 2016, 4:49 pm
How Jordan’s ‘sheikh of sheikhs’ negotiated with Zionists, founded a kingdom
Israeli pens first biography of Mithqal al-Fayiz, the tribal leader who put the Hashemites on the Jordanian throne — a Lawrence of Arabia-esque epic about a desert nomad
By Dov Lieber
In this screenshot, Chaim Weizmann cuts a tape to symbolize his official entrance into Jerusalem for his inauguration as president (Photo courtesy AP)
September 11, 2015, 10:09 pm
Weizmann, Churchill and ‘British Schindler’ were on Nazi hit list
Nazis singled out over 2,800 Britons, among them many Jews and anti-fascists, for punishment had Germany conquered the UK in WWII
By ToI Staff
Israeli youth participate a mass chemistry experiment at Tel-Aviv University last year (Photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)
From the WebNovember 20, 2012, 1:05 am
Process invented a century ago by Chaim Weizmann could power modern cars
Berkeley News Center: A long-abandoned fermentation process discovered by Israel’s first president during WWI could eventually replace fossil fuels at the gas pump
The original Hebrew University buildings (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 9, 2012, 4:50 pm
History on high at Mount Scopus
A thank you gift from the Jews to Lord Balfour, the cemetery hilltop 834 meters above sea level has been a command post, a danger-zone, a world-class medical facility, and a fount of Hebrew knowledge
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
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