This was the first president of the State of Israel:
Golda Meir
David Ben-Gurion
Chaim Weizmann
Theodor Herzl
Chaim Bialik
Chaim Weizmann.
The first president of the State of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, took office with the founding of the nation in 1948. David Ben-Gurion was Israel's first prime minister. Weizmann, born in Russia in 1874, taught chemistry in England and as a leading Zionist influenced Britain?s Balfour Declaration of 1917 favoring a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Weizmann settled in Palestine in 1934 and served as president of Israel from 1948 until his death in 1952.
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