PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL
DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN CHOSEN VETERAN ZIONIST LEADER (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, May 16. The Provisional Council of the State of Israel has elected as its President the veteran Zionist, Dr. Chaim Weizmann. Dr. Weizmann, who is 73, is under the care of a physician in New York City. One of his secretaries said to-
night that he had retired and could not be disturbed, even to be told of his election. She did not disclose the nature of his illness. Dr. Weizmann is a chemist of international renown. He was for years president of the World Zionist Organisation and the Jewish Agency. He was born in Tsarist Russia, but for many years lived in Britain. He lost one of his two sons, a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, in the second world war.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25497, 18 May 1948, Page 5
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