"Weizmann secured the Balfour Declaration, a British pledge written 107 years ago, which began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by signing the land away," the group claimed.
WATCH: Jerusalem Post Breaking News Editor Jacob Laznik speaks to Professor Jehuda Reinharz, co-author of “Chaim Weizmann: A Biography.
The facts of Weizmann’s life, fascinating though they are, yield in interest to the authors’ examination of his quite extraordinary personality and the powerful effect it exercised.
David Ben-Gurion won the elections and became Israel's first prime minister and Chaim Weizmann became Israel's first president.