Chaim Azriel Weizmann
Origin/Culture/Country: ZionistChaim Azriel Weizmann: was a Zionist leader, President of the World Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on February 1, 1949, and served until 1952. Weizmann was also a chemist who developed a new process of producing acetone thro
Chaim Ben Yitzchok
Origin/Culture/Country: JewishChaim Ben Yitzchok: was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Talmudist, and ethicist. Popularly known as Reb Chaim Volozhiner, or simply Reb Chaim, he was born in Volozhin when it was a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and died there while it was under the control of the Rus
Chaim Ozer Grodzinski
Origin/Culture/Country: LithuanianChaim Ozer Grodzinski: was a world renowned pre-war Dayan, Posek and Talmudic scholar in Vilna. Rabbi Grodzinski was born in 1863 in Iuje, Belarus, a small town near Vilna where his father served as Rabbi for forty years, preceded by his grandfather who had also been a Rabbi th
Chaïm Soutine
Origin/Culture/Country: BelarusianChaïm Soutine: was a Jewish expressionist painter from Belarus. He was born in Smilavichy near Minsk, Belarus (then part of the Russian Empire). From 1910–1913 he studied in Vilnius at the I. Trutnev painting school.
Chaim Herzog
Origin/Culture/Country: BritishChaim Herzog: served as the sixth President of Israel (1983–1993), following a distinguished career in both the British Army and the Israel Defense ForceIn 1975 Herzog was appointed Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, in which capacity he served until 1978. During his term the UN adopted the "Zionism is Racism" resolution (General Assembly Resolution 3379), which Herzog condemned and symbolically tore up (as his father had done to one of the British white papers regarding the British Mandate in Palestine), saying: "For us, the Jewish people, this resolution based on hatred, falsehood and arrogance, is devoid of any moral or legal value."s (IDF).