NEW PRESIDENT A SICK MAN
Roceivod Afondav, 7.35 p.m. XEW YORK, Afay 16. T)r. ('Iinim Weizmann, thc 73-yenr-old .Tewisli lauder who was today clected Presidcnt of Israei 's I'rovisional (tov ernnient, is undcr thc carc of a pliysicic.n 'oi Xcw York City. One of his sccrc larics said toniglit that hc liad retired and conld not be distnrlicd cvcn to be tohi of his clcction. Slic did not dis (dosc thc nature of his illncss. D>. Weizmann is a chcmist of internationa! renown and was t'or ycars presidcnt oi the World Zionist Organisation a?ul .Tcwish Agency. Dr. Wcizmann was |l)orn in Czarist Russia )>ut for many [ycars livcd in Britain. II e lost one of jliis two sons, a flight-lieutenant, in thc jR.A.F. in the Second World War.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 May 1948, Page 5
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