54 Friday, October 2, 1981 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 1Zr1z1i 1S1m mar5 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 liappif neat 'leaf -14 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 1:51114114 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 ri lliapp tined gearial l 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 USIN114 TIM 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