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  • Finest Hour

    Unforeseen Consequences

    Feb 11, 2022 2 minutes
    By David Freeman

    Of the scientists whose lives intersected with that of Winston Churchill’s, none knew him longer than Chaim Weizmann, the first President of the State of Israel. Born in Russia just three days before Churchill in 1874, Weizmann was educated in Germany and Switzerland before moving to

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