Who was Chaim Weizmann?
and what did he do?Biography of Chaim Weizmann Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952), Zionist leader and first President of Israel, was born in the village of Motol, near Pinsk, in the Russian Pale of Settlement, one of 15 children of a timber merchant where he attended a traditional heder; at the age of 11, he entered high school in Pinsk. Weizmann went on to study chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute of Darmstaat, Germany, and at the University of Freiburg, Switzerland, where, in 1899, he was awarded a doctorate with honors. In 1901, he was appointed assistant lecturer at the University of Geneva and, in 1904, senior lecturer at the University of Manchester. Weizmann’s first Zionist steps began at an early age, and from the second Zionist Congress onwards, he was a prominent figure in the Zionist Movement. In 1901, he helped found the Democratic Faction within the Zionist movement. At the 6th Congress, in Basle in 1903, he voted against the Uganda Scheme. At the 8th Congress in 1907, Weizmann
