Prof. Moshe Avigdor Weizmann, brother of Israel’s first President, and a professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University, died here at the age of 80. Born in Motel, Russia, and educated in Russia and Switzerland, Prof. Weizmann settled in Palestine in 1922.
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