Chaim Weizmann
1874 – 1952
Israeli

President. He was a leading Zionist and became the first president of Israel.

Contemporaries
1922–1995Itzhak Rabin
1919–1980Mohammad Pahlavi
1947–1996Mohammed Najibullah
1898–1978Golda Meir
1900–1989Ayatollah Khomeini
1892–1960Amanullah Khan
1937–2006Saddam Hussein
1915–1981Moshe Dayan
1886–1973David Ben-Gurion
1884–1963Itzhak Ben-Zvi
1913–1992Menachem Begin
1817–1892Baha'u'llah
1928–2000Hafez al Asad
1929–2004Yasser Arafat
1844–1885Mohammed Ahmed