Meyer Weisgal, Master Builder of Weizmann Institute, Describes Its Progress on Visit Here One of the most colorful Jewish personalities was a guest here for a single day on Wednesday. Meyer W. Weisgal, the master builder of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, who six months ago became president MEYER W. WEISGAL of the great Israeli research cen- ter, met at dinner Wednesday night, at the Standard Club, with a small group of Detroiters. Louis Berry presided at a brief session at which the dynamic head of the Weizmann Institute outlined the objectives of the science center. It was announced that Jack Wainger, together with Lewis Daniels, head the newly formed chapter of Detroit Friends of the Weizmann Institute. Weisgal told of the recent ac- complishments of the Weizmann Institute. The $100-million complex which has 19 faculties. He said that there are now in progress 400 research projects and that a gradu- ate school, which has enrolled 240 students, offer M Sc and Ph D degrees. Weisgal chatted with the group who dined with him here. He had not come to ask for funds but to mobilize affiliates who should take an interest in Isra- el's cultural programs and spe- cifically in the Weizmann In- stitute. He admonished the gathered group, which included Nate S. Shapero, who was the first presi- dent of the American Friends of the Sieff Institute in Rehovot, the forerunner of the Weizmann Institute, that Israel's progress depends primarily on spiritual- cultural strength; that the Jew- ish State's success is directly dependent upon the retention of the highest caliber of scientific; cultural and educational values. Without them, he warned, the State's merits will be nullified. The science center, Weisgal pointed out, was conceived in 1944 and the first building was dedi- cated in 1949, one year after Dr. Chaim Weizman was elected presi- dent of Israel. It was, Weisgal said, "a 70th birthday gift for Chaim. Weizmann, Israel's premier scientist-statesman, whose funda- mental scientific contributions in the field of chemistry have pro- foundly affected the structure of industrial civilization. It is the successor to the Daniel Sieff Re- search Institute, now encompassed within it, established at Rehovoth, by Dr. Weizmann in 1934 to create absorptive capacity for Palestine, then only 17 years removed from centuries of desuetude as a pro- Mt ANTS? IN INN Make 'Em Holler UNCLE! Call TE 3-3697 1 I 0 PEST CONTROL SERVICE, Inc. Guaranteed Control of Roaches, 1 Mice, Spiders and Clover Mites. Evenings Call 357-4641 Er 111i i NM MI 111111 MI 0 Mil vince of the Ottoman Empire." "Technically 22 years old, the major development of the Weiz- mann Institute and its preeminence in the international scientific com- munity has been attained since 1953, despite formidable obstacles in a new state only now 18 years old, constituting a unique record, according to scientists who regard 30 to 50 years as the normal ma- turing period for a major scientific institution," Weisgal said. "The scientific faculty of the In- stitute, numbering some 500, has been drawn from the world scien- tific leadership, now being supple. mented by young Israeli scientists. A technical, administrative and service staff of 760 supplements the scientific staff." For 25 years the closest associ- ate of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, in his political and scientific endeavors, Weisgal is the guardian of the Weizmann spiritual legacy which he has maintained as a living and growing catalyst for Israel and humanity since Dr. Weizmann's death in 1952. Born in Kikol, Poland, Nov. 10, 1894, Meyer Wolf Weisgal was brought to the United. States by his parents at the age of 11. He was educated in New York City public schools and at Columbia University where he studied journalism. A Zionist from his earliest youth, one of the early members of Hashahar, a Bronx Zionist society, he began, in 1915, to play a role, which became increasingly im- portant, in the major events which forged a straggling Zionist move- ment into a powerful agency for the attainment of Jewish state- hood. A disciple both of Louis Lipsky and Chaim Weizmann, a profound and intimate kinship was estab- lished with these two giants of the Zionist movement which endured throughout their lifetimes. Interrupted only by service in the U.S. Army during World War I, Weisgal served officially with the American Zionist movement from 1915 to 1930. In 1940 he resumed his official Zionist connection at the behest of Dr. Chaim Weizmann and as his personal representative in the United States. In 1915 Weisgal joined the staff of Maccabean, organ of the Zion- ist Organization of America, the first English language Zionist monthly, whose editor then was Louis Lipsky. In 1917, Weisgal succeeded to the post of editor. - In 1921, Weisgal also assumed the post of National Secretary of the Zionist Organization of America, which he held until 1930. From 1925 on, he was a dele- gate to all World Zionist Con- gresses. In 1940, Weisgal was invited by Dr. Weizmann to serve as his per- sonal political representative. Shortly thereafter, he was also charged with the task of establish- ing an American Section of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the internationally 'recognized Jewish spokesman under the Palestine Mandate, then headed by Dr. Weizmann. Subsequently, Weisgal became Secretary General of the Ameri- can Section of the Jewish Agency, a post which he held until 1946, while also serving as Dr. Weiz- mann's principal aide here. In 1942, as Secretary General of the American section of the Jewish Agency, he participated in the organization of an extra- ordinary Conference of Jewish leaders, the Biltmore Confer- ence, attended by Dr. Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion, from which emerged the decision to make a Jewish State at the war's end the goal of the Zionist move- ment. In 1944, friends of Dr. Weiz- mann, Weisgal among them, con- ceived the idea of establishing the Chaim Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehovoth, as an out- growth of the Daniel Sieff Re- search Institute established 10 years earlier, of which Dr. Weiz- mann was both founder and presi- dent, and whose purpose was, as he said, "to create absorptive ca- pacity" for Palestine. Weisgal was charged with the responsibility of organizing the mobilization of funds with which to give substance to the idea. In 1951, at the request of the Israel Government, Weisgal took a one year's leave of absence from the Weizmann Institute of Science to serve as vice-president of the State of Israel Bond Organization in the U.S. In 1957, at the request of Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, Mr. Weisgal accepted the chairmanship of the World Committee for the Observ- ance of Israel's 10th Anniversary. In 1926, Weisgal edited a vol- ume of poems by Chaim Nachman Biala in an English translation. From 1930 to 1932, he was the publisher and editor of the Jewish Standard of Toronto. In November 1944, Dial Press published "Chaim Weizmann — Statesman, Scientist, Builder of the Jewish Commonwealth," to which many notables contributed. The book was planned and edited by Weisgal as a 70th birthday tribute to Dr. Weizmann. The volume was translated into a number of lan- guages, including Hebrew. In 1962, on the 10th anniversary of Dr. Weizmann's death, Weisgal was responsible for "Chaim Weiz- mann — A Biography by Several THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, March 17, 1967-4S Eshkol Confers with U. S. Officials on Syrian Raids and Other Issues (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) JERUSALEM — Premier Levi Eshkol stressed to two top U.S. government officials at a meeting Tuesday the serious view Israel takes of the resumption of guer- rilla raids from Syria. The premier transmitted that view during a general briefing on the Middle East he gave Lucius Battle, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, and Harold Sanders, White House ad- viser on the region. The premier also described Is- rael's basic security problems. Eshkol discussed Israel's water problems and referred to the projected Israel-United States project to build a 5200,000,000 experimental plant to use nuc- lear energy to desalt brackish water. Premier Eshkol also conferred with Sir Alec Douglas-Home, for- mer British prime minister, dis- cussing Middle East and interna- tional developments. Sir Alec was guest at a dinner given by the for- eign affairs and security committee of parliament. Sir Alec told the dinner guests that Britain understood the point of view of a small country like Israel—that "if it does not stand up for itself, no one will." Hands," published in Great Bri- He also said he felt the great tain and the United States. powers must devise political In 1932, Weisgal presented in machinery to contain lesser ani- Chicago, at a Hanuka festival, the mosities and avoid small localized Chicago Opera Company and sev- wars. eral hundred actors, in the first version of a spectacle. "The Ro- mance of a People." Experienced Salesperson Spurred by the public and cri- Wanted tical acclaim of "The Romance of Full-Time a People" and the drastically shar- Unique Lamp & Gift Shop pened persecution of European 13611 W. 7 Mi. 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