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Grapevine: Balfour at Weizmann

A great deal of money from various members of the Sieff family went into promoting the Zionist cause and helping the development of Israel before and after statehood.

From left: Gen. Edmund Allenby, commander of Britian’s Egyptian Expeditionary Force; Balfour; and Sir Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner of Palestine (and a Jew)
From left: Gen. Edmund Allenby, commander of Britian’s Egyptian Expeditionary Force; Balfour; and Sir Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner of Palestine (and a Jew)
(photo credit: AMERICAN COLONY/GPO)
ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
OCTOBER 11, 2017 16:08
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