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24 September 1917 Brandeis cables London that President Wilson is sympathetic to the Zionist project

Chaim Weizmann meets Arthur Balfour who is now a member of the War Council

Weizmann meets with Gen. Jan Smuts, War Cabinet member, who supported the Zionist cause

In June 1917, Balfour asks Weizmann to submit a draft of a British government declaration on Palestine that would be satisfactory to the Zionists.

February 17, 1949 – Weizmann elected president

May 16, 1948 – Chaim Weizmann elected Chairman of the Provisional State Council of Israel. David Ben-Gurion is prime minister

November 4, 1944 – Weizmann meets Churchill, who says he supports creation of Jewish state

November 1941 – Weizmann appeals to British to create Jewish fighting force

March 1941 – Chaim Weizmann in US for war effort

Weizmann meets First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill in London

Weizmann sees Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

Balfour dies

Weizmann and US Jewish non-Zionist leader Louis Marshall of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) meet

Weizmann opposes urban development in Palestine, apparently referring to places such as ultra-Orthodox B’nei Brak, founded in May

Jabotinsky resigns from Executive to protest Weizmann’s soft line vis-a-vis British refusal to formalize Zionist national council in Palestine

Albert Einstein visits US with Chaim Weizmann on a fundraising tour for Hebrew University

11 December Weizmann meets Faisal in London

August 1919 – Weizmann and Brandeis meet in London. Discuss and disagree about structure and operation of Jewish Agency

Newspapers report Weizmann meeting Woodrow Wilson on sidelines of the year-long Paris Peace Conference

Weizmann meets Feisal in London prior to Paris Peace Conference. The leaders sign agreement on the development of an Arab state and [Jewish] Palestine. Faisal warns that the arrangement will be nullified if the Arabs are not granted the British-promised state

Weizmann returns to Cairo to meet Lawrence of Arabia

Weizmann meets Allenby

Weizmann meets two Muslim leaders in Jerusalem

Zionists celebrate first anniversary of Balfour Declaration

Cornerstone-laying ceremony at Hebrew University on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem

Chaim Weizmann meets Feisal in Aqaba

Zionist Commission, led by Chaim Weizmann, arrives in Palestine

Dance for joy

Balfour Declaration issued: Britain promises a national home for the Jews in Palestine

Weizmann sends a memorandum to Philip Henry Kerr, a member of Lloyd George’s secretariat.

Weizmann meets Mark Sykes for the first time

Weizmann elected president of the English Zionist Federation.

Sykes, Sokolow and Weizmann meet at Sykes’s residence to review the situation.

In a meeting with Chaim Weizmann and Lord Rothschild, Balfour promises a formal declaration of support for the Zionist venture.

Lord Robert Cecil seeks Jewish support for British in Palestine

Armenian lobbyist James Malcolm writes to Weizmann

Sokolow writes to Weizmann about his meeting with French representatives

Weizmann writes to Brandeis asks he lobby US government to support Zionism

Lloyd George said to be “emphatic on the point of British Palestine”

Sykes tells Weizmann to prepare diplomatic follow-up after capture of Gaza

Lloyd George on British Army’s advance into Palestine

March 22, 1917 – Weizmann has serious practical talk with now Foreign Minister Arthur James Balfour on Zionism and a possible French or American role in Palestine

Negotiations with Sykes entering final stage

Weizmann Meets C.P. Scott

French unwillingness to renounce claims to Palestine

Weizmann and Sokolow discuss Picot meeting

Meeting with Sykes at home of Gaster

Weizmann meets Sykes

Weizmann meets Wolf

March 1, 1916 Weizmann sees Balfour

Weizmann critical of munitions ministry

JUNE 1915 – PRIME MINISTER DAVID LLOYD GEORGE INTERVIEWS CHAIM WEIZMANN AS HEAD OF THE BRITISH ADMIRALTY LABORATORIES FROM 1917 TO 1919, WEIZMANN WAS ENGAGED IN SCIENTIFIC WORK FOR THE WAR EFFORT — INVENTING A PROCESS TO PRODUCE SYNTHETIC ACETONE NEEDED FOR EXPLOSIVES.

C.P. Scott’s view is that “events are shaping in favour of a British Palestine”

Weizmann meets Balfour

Weizmann and Samuel breakfast with Lloyd George

Weizmann- Lloyd George breakfast set

Zionist leaders Nahum Sokolow and Jehiel Tschlenow arrive in London and join forces with Weizmann

Chaim Weizmann meets Baron Edmond de Rothschild in Paris

December 14, 1914 – Weizmann writes Ahad Ha’am about interview with Balfour who admired Weizmann’s assertiveness on Zionism

Nahum Sokolow arrives in England

Weizmann meets Herbert Samuel

“Guardian” editor C.P. Scott writes to Weizmann

Weizmann meets CP Scott

Weizmann visits Palestine

January 9, 1906 – Weizmann holds conversation with Balfour on Zionism.

First Weizmann-Balfour Meeting