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...Chaim Weizmann of Motol. Russia, son of Osher the timber merchant and Rachel, stood before the Knesset in Jerusalem, taking the oath of office as Israel's first President in 2,000 years. In pain, his eyes seeing dimly through cataracts, he stumbled over the biblical phraseology in his Hebrew address, interjected: "I can't go on." But go on he did, to the end of the address and for almost four lonely and physically painful years afterward. One morning last week, a few days before his 78th birthday, his heart stopped, and Chaim Weizmann, the man, died...
...Chaim Weizmann, the leader, died back in 1946, when he lost control of the world Zionist organization to the activists led by David Ben-Gurion. He had always opposed violence as a betrayal of the Jewish ethic, but Israel, perhaps necessarily, was born with war as the midwife. Weizmann was brushed aside and became a figurehead, enshrined, for past services, in a beautiful home in Rehovoth, surrounded by delicate Ming porcelains and modern French paintings...
Since that day, which Chaim Weizmann recorded in his memoirs, Mount Scopus has been transfigured more than once by the people of Israel. Over the years, 17 grey concrete buildings have gone up. There are streamlined laboratories, the greatest library in the Near East, schools of law, agriculture, humanities and Oriental studies. The only trouble is, the Hebrew University can use none of these buildings. Since 1948, the road to Mount Scopus has been under the control...
This Years's winner received a copy of Fleser and Fleser, "The Natural Products Related to Phenanthrene." Other prizes were Chaim Weizmann's "Autobiography," and a subscription to Scientific American...
After a tour of Israel, where his sitters included President Chaim Weizman, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, a few "men in the street," and members of the cabinet, Sculptor Jo Davidson arrived in Paris with a group of plaster busts to be cast in bronze. It was the beginning of a Davidson project to make a bronze history of the new country...