This was the first president of the State of Israel:
- Golda Meir
- David Ben-Gurion
- Chaim Weizmann
- Theodor Herzl
- Chaim Bialik
Daily Quiz for April 3, 2008
This was the first president of the State of Israel:
This was the first president of the State of Israel:
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.