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  2. Chaim Weizmann - Wikipedia

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    Chaim Azriel Weizmann (/ ˈ k aɪ m ˈ w aɪ t s m ə n / KYME WYTE-smən; [a] 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Russian-born Israeli statesman, biochemist, and Zionist leader who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel.

  3. List of presidents of Israel - Wikipedia

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    Weizmann's position remained as Chairman of Provisional State Council until 17 February 1949, when he was declared President by the first Knesset. Upon Weizmann's death on 9 November 1952, Knesset Speaker Yosef Sprinzak took over as Acting President of Israel until the inauguration of Yitzhak Ben-Zvi.

  4. 1952 Israeli presidential election - Wikipedia

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    An election for President of Israel was held in the Knesset on 8 December 1952 following the death of the Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann on 9 November. Between Weizmann's death and the winner of the election, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, taking office on 16 December, Knesset speaker Yosef Sprinzak served as acting president.

  5. Busts of Israeli president stolen from university

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    Pro-Palestinian activists claimed they had "abducted" the sculptures of Chaim Weizmann

  6. 1952 in Israel - Wikipedia

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    9 November – President Chaim Weizmann dies in office and Yosef Sprinzak, Speaker of the Knesset, becomes acting president pending the election and inauguration of a new president. 7 December – Mordechai Maklef is appointed as the third Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.

  7. A brief history of the Israel-Palestinian conflict - AOL

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    British Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, ... US president Woodrow Wilson commissioned a report into the non-Turkish regions of the fallen Ottoman Empire conducted by academic Dr Henry King and ...

  8. 1949 Israeli presidential election - Wikipedia

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    There were two candidates: Chaim Weizmann: The president of the Provisional State Council and the incumbent head of state, Weizmann was a leader of the Zionist cause and heavily involved in the Balfour Declaration and the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement regarding the formation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

  9. A land without a people for a people without a land - Wikipedia

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    In 1914 Chaim Weizmann, later president of the World Zionist Congress and the first president of the state of Israel said: "In its initial stage Zionism was conceived by its pioneers as a movement wholly depending on mechanical factors: there is a country which happens to be called Palestine, a country without a people, and, on the other hand ...