Chaim Weizmann

Middle Israel: Herzog must reject Netanyahu's cynical plea for a pardon - opinion

What Netanyahu gave President Herzog is a celebration of deceit and hypocrisy, penned by a PM who is promoting a draft-dodging bill and blocking an impartial inquiry of October 7.

Evidently inspired by history, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week sent President Isaac Herzog a pardon request reminiscent of the one Herzog’s father received in 1986, hoping the son might now do for him what his father once did for another Israeli leader.
 THE FUTURISTIC particle accelerator building at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

Weizmann Institute: A legacy of discovery, innovation, and resilience

 WEIZMANN INSTITUTE President Alon Chen (left) with Eric Gertler, trustee of the Zuckerman Israel Institute and the Zucker Family Foundation

Grapevine April 17, 2025: Closing a circle

 An aerial view of Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Mount Scopus campus.

100 years of innovation: Hebrew University of Jerusalem celebrates centennial


Police arrest four for stealing, beheading Manchester University Weizmann bust

Two men and two women between the ages of 20 and 34 were arrested on suspicion of the November 1 aggravated burglary by the Palestine Action vandalism activist group.

 Greater Manchester Police arrest suspect in November 1 theft of Chaim Weizmann bust.

Palestine Action claims to abduct sculpture of Israeli president from University of Manchester

"Weizmann secured the Balfour Declaration, a British pledge written 107 years ago, which began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by signing the land away," the group claimed.

Palestine Action claimed on Saturday that members of the pro-Palestinian group abducted a statue of former Israeli President Chaim Weizmann from the University of Manchester.

A conversation with Professor Jehuda Reinharz, co-author of 'Chaim Weizmann: A Biography'

WATCH: Jerusalem Post Breaking News Editor Jacob Laznik speaks to Professor Jehuda Reinharz, co-author of “Chaim Weizmann: A Biography.

 Chaim Weizmann: A Biography

'Chaim Weizmann: A Biography': A revealing look at the life of Israel's first president - review

The facts of Weizmann’s life, fascinating though they are, yield in interest to the authors’ examination of his quite extraordinary personality and the powerful effect it exercised.

 President Chaim Weizmann

On this day: First ever election to the Knesset held in 1949

David Ben-Gurion won the elections and became Israel's first prime minister and Chaim Weizmann became Israel's first president.

 The Knesset building, home of Israel's legislature, in Jerusalem, on November 14, 2022 (Illustrative).

The Israeli presidency and the significance of seven

Anyone familiar with Herzog can tell you that “you ain’t seen nothing yet.”

 Isaac Herzog is sworn in as president, alongside outgoing president Reuven Rivlin and Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy

Rivlin to play his predecessor, Chaim Weizmann, in new TV season

The series tells the story of the young people who served in the Palmah starting in 1946. President Rivlin will play Israel's first president Chaim Weizmann.

REUVEN RIVLIN with Orly Atlas-Katz.

ECI to mark 100 years since San Remo Conference in Jerusalem

'This is the most momentous political event in the whole history of our movement, and it is, perhaps, no exaggeration to say in the whole history of our people since the Exile'

San Remo Conference 521

Reuven Rivlin: If Israel is to be successful, it must be united

The president's comments came during a speech at a memorial event for the first president of Israel, Dr. Chaim Weizmann.

President Reuven Rivlin lays a wreath at the official memorial ceremony for Dr. Chaim Weizmann, November 19, 2019

Grapevine: Between politics and prayers

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

TAMAR ZANDBERG and Uri Zaki are expectant parents.

Learning firsthand about Theodor Herzl...

... from my grandfather Rabbi Jacob Koppel Goldbloom (1872-1961), a forgotten Zionist activist

SEALING STAMP of the Jewish National Fund depicting Theodor Herzl in his iconic posture on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, during the First Zionist Congress, 1897. The quoted Psalm 137, “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning,” was how Herz