The Biochemist Who Helped Establish a Jewish State | The Jewish Story | Unpacked

After the death of Theodor Herzl in 1904, British-Jewish biochemist Chaim Weizmann was determined to carry out Herzl’s vision of international support for a Jewish homeland in what was then Palestine.

With World War I raging and the Jews of the Land of Israel, greatly suffering under Ottoman rule, Weizmann petitioned the British and persuaded many, including Winston Churchill, of the urgency to declare Israel as the Jewish homeland.

On October 31, 1917, Herzl’s dream came closer to realization when the British parliament expressed Britain's official support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine through the Balfour Declaration.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:30 Theodor Herzl and the Zionist Movement
01:01 Chaim Weizmann's origins
01:38 The Weizmann Process and Winston Churchill
02:11 Petitioning for Zionism
02:23 Jews in the Ottoman Empire
03:20 Zion Mille Corps and Zeev Jabotinsky
03:54 British promises
04:24 Weizmann uses Antisemitic tropes to gain support for Zionism
05:08 Righteous Zionist cause
05:32 The Balfour Declaration, Britain's official support for a Jewish home in Palestine
06:02 Weizmann holds the accountable
06:19 British limits on immigration to Palestine
07:00 True Jewish independence
07:33 Outro

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