T. E. Lawrence — Chaim Weizmann

“ It was therefore a great relief to me to find him not only friendly to the ideals embodied in Zionism but fully conversant with the subject.”

Weizmann with Feisal 1919. Image: israelinternationalnews.com

Chaim Weizmann was born in Russia in 1874. He was the President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the 1930s, and was elected the first President of Israel on the 16th of February 1949, serving until his death in 1952. He first met T. E. Lawrence in 1918. Of…