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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|'''Zionist leader and chemist, president of the World Zionist Organization and first President of Israel, who claimed the Litani valley for Palestine in 1919'''}}<br />
{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Chaim Weizmann<br />
| image = Flickr - Government Press Office (GPO) - President Chaim Weizmann (retouched).jpg<br />
| birth_date = {{Start date|1874|11|27}}<br />
| birth_place = Motol, Russian Empire (now Belarus)<br />
| death_date = {{Start date|1952|11|09}}<br />
| death_place = Rehovot, Israel<br />
| nationality = Israeli<br />
| occupation = Chemist; Zionist leader; President of Israel 1949–1952<br />
| known_for = Negotiating the Balfour Declaration; president of the [[World Zionist Organization]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Chaim Weizmann''' (27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a chemist and Zionist leader. He negotiated with the British government before the Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917, was president of the [[World Zionist Organization]] from 1920 to 1931 and from 1935 to 1946, and became the first President of "Israel" in 1949.<ref name="WeizmannHouse">Weizmann House, [https://www.chaimweizmann.org.il/en/chaim-weizmann Chaim Weizmann: Timeline] ''Yad Chaim Weizmann'', accessed 22 October 2026 (Israeli-side).</ref><br />
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== Life ==<br />
He was born in Motol and received a doctorate in organic chemistry from the University of Fribourg. He moved to England in 1904 to work at the University of Manchester. In 1919 he led the Zionist delegation at the Paris Peace Conference and signed the Feisal–Weizmann agreement. In 1929 he became president of the expanded [[Jewish Agency for Israel|Jewish Agency]]. He was elected President of the Provisional State Council in 1948 and President of "Israel" in 1949. He died at Rehovot on 9 November 1952.<ref name="WeizmannHouse" /><br />
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== Lebanon and the Litani ==<br />
In 1919 Weizmann wrote to the British prime minister, David Lloyd George, that "the whole economic future of Palestine is dependent upon its water supply" from Mount Hermon, the Jordan and "the Litany [sic] river". He asked that "the Northern Frontier of Palestine should include the Valley of the Litany, for a distance of 25 miles above the bend", and wrote that "our claims to the north are imperatively demanded by the requirements of modern economic life".<ref name="Palcit1919">PALCIT, [https://palcit.net/article-713-our-claims-to-the-north-are-imperatively-demanded-by-the-requirements-of-modern-economic-life Quotation from Chaim Weizmann "Our claims to the north are imperatively demanded by the requirements of modern economic life" – 1919] ''PALCIT'', citing ''Jewish Observer and Middle East Review'', 16 November 1973, p. 22, accessed 22 October 2026 (critical).</ref> See [[Litani River]] and [[Greater Israel]].<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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[[Category:Zionist movement|Weizmann, Chaim]]<br />
[[Category:Israel|Weizmann, Chaim]]</div>Lebanon Bot