Chaim Weizmann

Hebrew University marks centennial with official new commemorative stamp

University officials said the centennial marks both a reflection on past achievements, including ten Nobel Prizes and two Turing Awards, and a framework for future growth.

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The commemorative stamp, with a face value of 9 shekels, was designed by Studio Mench and is available for purchase through the Israel Post Philatelic Service website.
Evidently inspired by history, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week sent President Isaac Herzog a pardon request reminiscent of the one Herzog’s father received in 1986, hoping the son might now do for him what his father once did for another Israeli leader.

Middle Israel: Herzog must reject Netanyahu's cynical plea for a pardon - opinion

What Netanyahu gave President Herzog is a celebration of deceit and hypocrisy, penned by a PM who is promoting a draft-dodging bill and blocking an impartial inquiry of October 7.

|ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
THE FUTURISTIC particle accelerator building at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

Weizmann Institute: A legacy of discovery, innovation, and resilience

When Iranian ballistic missiles struck the heart of the Weizmann Institute, the message was loud and clear: not even peaceful scientific research is safe.

|ByALEX WINSTON
WEIZMANN INSTITUTE President Alon Chen (left) with Eric Gertler, trustee of the Zuckerman Israel Institute and the Zucker Family Foundation

Grapevine April 17, 2025: Closing a circle

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

Grapevine: Between politics and prayers

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 7, 2019ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
TAMAR ZANDBERG and Uri Zaki are expectant parents.

Learning firsthand about Theodor Herzl...

... from my grandfather Rabbi Jacob Koppel Goldbloom (1872-1961), a forgotten Zionist activist

AUGUST 30, 2019ByDAVID FAIMAN
SEALING STAMP of the Jewish National Fund depicting Theodor Herzl in his iconic posture on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, during the First Zionist Congress, 1897. The quoted Psalm 137, “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning,” was how Herz

Einstein’s 1948 letter praising Jewish resilience on sale

The letter is dated May 19, 1948, and was written in German. It was addressed to the first Israeli president Chaim Weizmann.

AUGUST 12, 2019ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
David Ben-Gurion meeting with Albert Einstein at Princeton University, in 1951

Grapevine: A successful revolution

Though a sincere friend of the Jewish people, Balfour is far from happy with some of Israel’s policies, and had intended to mention this in his speech, but a friend counseled him against it.

NOVEMBER 10, 2018ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
FROM LEFT: Baron David de Rothschild, Lord Jacob Rothschild, Ronald S. Lauder and Robert Kraft.

What miracle can be greater?

Fortunate are we and our children and grandchildren that we live at a time in history where with our own eyes we have seen the fulfillment of this great miracle.

MAY 13, 2018ByMARVIN HIER
PEOPLE WATCH the Israel Air Force Aerobatic team fly over the Mediterranean Sea during Independence Day celebrations in Tel Aviv, 2017

Meet the new president of global Jewish students

“Students have been at the forefront of every revolution in recent history,” says Benstein.

JANUARY 2, 2018ByTAMARA ZIEVE
The World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) picture taken at the Leonardo Hotel in Jerusalem Credit: Dana Levinson Steiner

Brandeis’s role in Balfour

The truth is that Brandeis was involved at an important juncture in Jewish and world history, and his actions were as crucial as any of the players in the story.

NOVEMBER 2, 2017BySTUART GELLER
Louis Brandeis

The Balfour Declaration – some stories and anecdotes

"We had Jerusalem when London was a swamp."

OCTOBER 28, 2017ByBARRY SHAW
‘Chaim Weizmann took time out of his busy schedule to meet Aharoni and report back to the British lord on the healthy state of Palestinian ostriches.’