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April 17, 2018

Chaim Weizmann Combined Gifted Statesmanship with a Passionate Commitment to Jewish Particularism

Formidable even when sidelined.

With Israeli independence day approaching, Gil Troy reflects on the life of the chemist and Zionist activist Chaim Weizmann, who was one of the architects of the Balfour Declaration, a crucial leader of the Zionist movement during the Mandate period, and eventually Israel’s first president. Troy notes, among other things, the great Jewish statesman’s understanding of Zionism itself:

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April 17, 2018

  1. The European Union’s Nonsensical Quest to Preserve the Iran Deal

    Respecting what signatures?

  2. Chaim Weizmann Combined Gifted Statesmanship with a Passionate Commitment to Jewish Particularism

    Formidable even when sidelined.

  3. Why Hasn’t the U.S. Cracked Down on Hizballah in Latin America?

    Call a drug-smuggling organization what it is.

  4. The Couriers of the Jewish Underground in Nazi-Occupied Poland

    Heroic women who risked their lives.

  5. Israeli Schoolchildren Discover a 7th-Century Engraving of a Hanukkah Menorah

    Along with a rare gold coin and other artifacts.