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  1. Vera Weizmann (née Chatzman) (Hebrew: ורה ויצמן; November 27, 1881 – September 24, 1966), wife of Chaim Weizmann, the first president of the State of Israel, was a medical doctor and a Zionist activist.

  2. A Zionist and a physician, Vera Weizmann was a founding member of the WIZO. She accompanied and assisted her husband Chaim, the president of the Zionist Federation of Britain and first president of Israel, as he negotiated the founding of a Jewish state.

  3. Sep 12, 2020 · The only person who “interfered” with the writing of the biography, Golani says, was Vera Weizmann: Before her death, in 1966, she ordered the destruction of all her personal correspondence. “The historian and the biographer mourn that decision, but in the end the loss is primarily hers,” Golani observes – because most of what we know ...

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  4. Vera Weizmann. Public health physician, Zionist leader and life-partner of Chaim Weizmann. More. Lead a life intertwined with the Zionist movement's quest. When the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917 Britain’s women did not have the right to vote or serve in Parliament.

  5. Dec 30, 2019 · Chaim Weizmann: The Great Enabler. From the Balfour Declaration to the Establishment of the State of Israel | Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience | Oxford Academic. Journal Article. Chaim Weizmann: The Great Enabler. From the Balfour Declaration to the Establishment of the State of Israel. Jehuda Reinharz. , Motti Golani.

    • Jehuda Reinharz, Motti Golani
    • 2020
  6. Vera Weizmann died on September 24, 1966 and was buried next to her husband Chaim Weizmann in Rechovot. After her death the Weizmann home became a national preservation site, open to visitors from all over the world.

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  8. Weizmann, Vera (1881–1966) First first lady of Israel. Name variations: Vera Chatzmann. Born on November 27, 1881, in Rostov, Russia; died on September 24, 1966, in Israel; educated at Marinskaya Imperial Gymnasium and the Rostov Conservatoire of Music; studied medicine at the University of Geneva; married Chaim Weizmann (1874–1952, first ...