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He cited as additional cost-cutting measures a 25 percent reduction in mi- leage allowances for Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization employes re- quired to travel; a reduction in missions abroad by WZO officials; and a half million dollar saving in the opera- tion of the Agency's Euro- pean offices. 1 To: The Jewish News 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd. Suite 865 Southfield, Mich. 48075 WE'VE JUST , ■ 19! May 28; 1976 53 ouse-TheWeizmann Home "It was the home of a man who was officially president of the Jewish people long be- fore he became president of the state of Israel. Here he received the leaders of the world, and critical decisions determining the future of the Jewish people were made. He had it built for him — at his own cost, he never took a penny from the movement — by Eric Men- delsohn, of the Bauhaus, as a classic example of the Bauhaus work." Weisgal describes the lov- ing restoration of the build- ing as being similar, al- though on a very small scale, of course, to the build- ing of the Williamsburg vil- lage in Virginia. "Rafi Blu- menfeld, the architect, told us, 'whatever you do, make the House look as if Weiz- mann had just walked out of it.' We followed these in- structions; everything is restored exactly as it was. It will be a museum and a place for students of Zion- ism to work on the Weiz- mann papers." Gershon Dror, the man- aging director of finance and administration in Yad Chaim Weizmann, says, "In these days when the nation seems racked by masochism and self-criti- cism, and when Zionism is coming under such venom- ous attacks, it is a great thing to create a haven for the Zionist spirit, personi- fied in Dr. Weizmann and preserved in this museum. We expect 250,000 people from Israel and abroad to visit the House every year." On the wall of the house is a plaque, commemorating the donation by Vivien Duf- field of the funds needed for the restoration. This was her birthday gift to her father, Sir Charles Clore. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the scientist, after years of pov- erty, was able to merchan- dise some of his wisdom and . understanding — notably his discoveries of dyes and other chemical processes — into enough gold and silver to build the home of his dreams, suitable for a prince in Israel. The mansion overlooks the orange groves of Re- hovot on the one hand and the gardens of the Weiz- mann Institute of Science. Dror estimates the home costs somewhere between 10,000 pounds and 15,000 pounds — a lot of pounds in those days — and was finished in 1939. The resto- ration has cost $250,000. "Mrs. Weizmann, I am sure, would have approved what we have done," Dror comments, "But she would have given us a hard time while we were doing it." Walking around the house we pass a small swim- ming-pool, set in the white wings of the building. From the outbuilding, erected to house the offices of Yad Chaim Weizmann, we go along a passage, lined by the six austere study rooms re- served for students of the Weizmann archives, which are stored in the cellars. Pride of place in the study and library is taken by the famous portrait of Weiz- mann. There is a T'ang Dy- nasty carving of a white horse, which, Dror said, has been valued at 50,000 pounds. Autographed pho- tographs of Churchill, Smuts, Balfour and Lloyd George abound. A bust of Weizmann by Jacob Epstein is displayed. Here it was that Weizmann sat and talked to the great men of the world. Or perhaps he took them into the adjoining music-room, to hear Menu- hin of Heifetz perform. Completing the ground floor is the dining-room, with seats for 12 people, where, in terms of the British tradition that he admired so much, Weiz- mann and his fellow diners combined so many impor- wanted to be near the Vol- tant decisions with good cani Institute, but, in the re- sult, there is no tie between food and drink. Batya Abramowitz came the scientists working in the to work for the Weizmanns two institutes. Would it not when she was a young have been better — and woman, and remained at would not fund-raising have the Institute after Vera been much easier — if the died. She is back working in great statesman-scientist the house, where she also had chosen Jerusalem in- served when it was used for stead of Rehovot for the some years, before being Sieff Institute? And closed, as a residence for vis- wouldn't the Holy City have iting celebrities, like Nobel been a more suitable site for the White House, a home Prize-winner Isador Rabi. On the first floor is the suitable for the President? "It's never been a handi- small room in which he died, arranged exactly as it cap that we're in Rehovot. In was at that melancholy 1944, David Ben-Gurion time. Lying open is the suggested that I build the prayer book read to him a Weizmann Institute in Jeru- few hours before he died. salem. I went back to the There is also the large bed- chief with the proposal. He room and the smaller said no, it was not desirable rooms, intended for the that we should put all our boys, one of whom, Michael, eggs in one basket. Mark was to be denied a chance to this now: he warned me that use by the War, in which he a time might come when fought and died in the RAF. Jerusalem would be cut off There are several pictures of from the rest of the country, and scientists would have to Michael in the house. On the top floor Mendel- be brought down to the sohn placed a large guest plain with great difficulty. room, opening on to a roof And that's precisely what garden commanding views happened — scientists were stretching out in all direc- flown out of Jerusalem and taken to Rehovot, where tions. Weisgal has activated they set up Hemed, the the publication of the scientific arm of our defense Weizmann letters in 25 forces. You see what an ac- volumes, plus several ac- curate prophet Weizmann companying books, plus was?" the development of impres- And where does he go sive memorial plaza, plus from here? What new the annexation of the project to honor the chief month of November as the is hatching in that fertile Weismann month — now brain, under that thatch of he has added the White wavy iron hair? House Museum. How "By 1977 we'll have fin- much money has he raised altogether in Weizmann's ished the publication of the letters in 25 volumes. We've honor? "I suppose that in the last got two books coming out 30 years I've raised $250 mil- right now about Weizmann, lion for the Institute, and one by Harold Blumberg, about $5 million for the ar- the other by Barnett Litvi- nov. Now Mrs. Duffield has chives and so on. Reverting to the Weis- made possible the restora- mann Institute and the me- tion of the White House, morial to Weizmann, has it and Israelis and others will not been a disadvantage be able to see the truth for that Weizmann chose Re- themselves. But still, there hovot? At the time he may be more to be done." • From Paste in old label NAME L Please Allow Two Weeks _j "The White House" became the name of the home of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, first president of the state of Israel. Pictured here is the library of the Weizmann home, Dr. Weizmann's favorite room, which remains today with the books, pictures and personal, mementos exactly as they were when he worked at his desk. Dr. Weizmann built the home at his own expense.