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Chaim Weizmann

1874 - 1952

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Chaim Azriel Weizmann ( KYME WYTE-smən; 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Russian-born Israeli statesman, biochemist, and Zionist leader who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chaim Weizmann has received more than 1,590,851 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Chaim Weizmann is the 573rd most popular politician (up from 920th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 10th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belarusian Politician.

Chaim Weizmann was a Zionist leader and the first president of Israel.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Chaim Weizmann ranks 573 out of 19,576Before him are Oscar II of Sweden, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Kim Dae-jung, Lech Kaczyński, George II of Great Britain, and Sneferu. After him are Xanthippe, Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu, Hassan II of Morocco, Khosrow I, Macrinus, and Philip III of France.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Chaim Weizmann ranks 8Before him are Robert Frost, Guglielmo Marconi, Harry Houdini, Arnold Schoenberg, Herbert Hoover, and Howard Carter. After him are Ernst Cassirer, Johannes Stark, Max Scheler, Edward Thorndike, Gertrude Stein, and Alexander Kolchak. Among people deceased in 1952, Chaim Weizmann ranks 6Before him are Maria Montessori, Knut Hamsun, Eva Perón, George VI, and John Dewey. After him are Alexandra Kollontai, Wilm Hosenfeld, Paul Éluard, Karen Horney, Sveinn Björnsson, and Benedetto Croce.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Chaim Weizmann ranks 5 out of 368Before him are Shimon Peres (1923), Marc Chagall (1887), Lev Vygotsky (1896), and Menachem Begin (1913). After him are Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746), Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Simon Kuznets (1901), and Chaim Soutine (1893).

Among POLITICIANS In Belarus

Among politicians born in Belarus, Chaim Weizmann ranks 3Before him are Shimon Peres (1923), and Menachem Begin (1913). After him are Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877), Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Zalman Shazar (1889), Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), Mstislav I of Kiev (1076), Isser Harel (1912), and Maria Kaczyńska (1942).