54 Friday, October 2, 1981
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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MRS. HELEN S. ATLER
wishes all her friends and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year
Unique Architecture, Priceless Art Objects
Set Weizmann House Apart from Most
By GEOFFREY WEILL
Israeli Government
Tourism Office
A very Happy, Healthy
and Prosperous New Year
to all our family and dear friends
THE FORMAN FAMILY
Ronnie, Shelly, DeAnna
Bonnie and Jayme
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ROBERT & CHARLES SALON
6686 Orchard Lake Rd., W. Bloomfield
wish all their friends & customers a Healthy,
Happy & Prosperous
New Year
Wishing all our friends
and relatives a happy and
healthy New Year
JERUSALEM — It's not
what you might expect in
Israel. A real, honest-to-
goodness "stately" home.
But there it stands, on a
tranquil, verdant slope, in
Rehovot.
The home of the late First
President of the state of Is-
rael and his wife, Chaim
and Vera Weizmann is lo-
cated on the grounds of the
Weizmann Institute of Sci-
ence, and is a treat for the
visitor.
To design their home-on-
the-hill, the Weizmanns
chose Eric Mendelsohn, ar-
chitect of the original
Hadassah Hospital on
Jerusalem's Mount Scopus.
Mendelsohn designed a
Bauhaus-style structure,
built squarely around a
circular staircase, lit by
glass bricks, a great favo-
rite of the post-
depression designers.
The two main reception
rooms flank the central
courtyard swimming-
pool, the elegant, long
dining room leading off
the central hall.
In a letter to a friend,
Vera Weizmann described
how she planned the house:
". . . the library, big
enough to hold all Dr.
Weizmann's books, must
have an open fireplace
where he could arrange (or
disarrange) the logs after
the manner of a man at
home, and a loggia where he
could step out in the middle
of a day's work."
The library desk remains
as it was at the time of
Chaim Weizmann's death
in 1952. It is a warmly fur-
nished room, on the east, in-
tersected with high porthole
windows, and on the west
French doors open on to the
swimming-pool terrace.
Over the fireplace hangs an
oil portrait of Weizmann, by
Birley.
The salon's art treasures
are a tribute to the Weiz-
mann's exquisite taste.
Magnificent Persian silk
carpet; priceless, fifteenth
century BCE Chinese
T'Ang Dynasty horse; and
on the walls, works by Ut-
rillo, Degas and others.
Of the rest of the house,
Vera Weizmann wrote,
"The guest bedrooms .. .
most not be too few nor
yet too many, and last but
not least . . . the garden
which in the all-too-brief
glory of the Palestinian
spring . . . must glow
with masses of color."
The bedrooms are
brightly furnished in a style
reminiscent of an English
country house, but what
most impresses the visitor
are the personal touches:
Weizmann's photographs,
ornaments, his prayer book
open at his favorite prayer,
from the Yom Kippur Serv-
ice, and most of all the ledge
specially built outside his
circular bedroom window,
from which each morning,
he could feed the birds.
The grounds surrounding
the house are, as Vera
Weizmann wanted, a riot of
color. Perfect lawns, flower-
ing bushes, blossoming
trees and beds of fragrant
flowers. Near the main
entrance to the house is yet
another charming memento
of Chaim Weizmann.
FROM THE COITUS, COHEN & NOTLYAR FAMILIES
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Built in 1937, the Weizmann House is a typical
example of the Bauhaus style of architecture. It was
the home of Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first president,
until his death in 1952.
state of Israel."
Not far from the house, at
a site they had chosen, are
the graves of Chaim and
Vera Weizmann.
Quiet and sincere sym-
pathy is often the most wel-
come and efficient consola-
tion to the afflicted.
We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year
JANETTE and JESSE ANTMAN
tizrizn rime my,
SIMON and HELEN CIECK
wish all their friends and haverim
a happy and healthy New Year
A very Happy, Healthy
and Prosperous New Year
to all our family and dear friends
MR. & MRS. GEORGE BASS
& FAMILY
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Wishing all our friends
and relatives a happy and
healthy New Year
RUTHIE & 1E
Wishing all our friends and
relatives a year of health
and happiness
MR. and MRS. LAWRENCE WAYNE
& FAMILY
Under a specially built
shelter, stands the 1951
Lincoln Continental, all
shiny black paint and
gleaming chrome, with the
plaque that describes it as:
"A gift from the President of
the United States, Harry S.
Truman to Chaim Weiz-
mann, first president of the
E FAMED — Las, Mot, Marc & Lisa
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Wishing all our friends and
relatives a year of health
and happiness
This 15th Century BCE Chinese T'ang Dynasty
horse stands on a table in the salon of the Weizmann
House in Rehovot. On the far wall is a portrait of Vera
Weizmann, Israel's first "First Lady."
THE WILSONS
E D, LINDA, SCOTT LISA & STACY