Vera Weizmann

Vera Weizmann (; ; ; 27 November 1881 – 24 September 1966) was a Russian-born physician, Zionist and inaugural First Lady of Israel from 1949 to 1952. Weizmann was a founding member of the Women's International Zionist Organization. The following year Weizmann met her future husband Chaim Weizmann at the University's Zionist Club.

Personal life In 1906, Weizmann married Chaim Weizmann in Zoppot, West Prussia (present-day Sopot, Poland). The couple had two sons, Benjamin Weizmann (1907–1980), a dairy farmer, and Michael Weizmann (1917–1942), a pilot in British Royal Air Force who died whilst serving in the Second World War.

In 1910, Weizmann obtained British citizenship.

On 24 September 1966, Weizmann died in London aged 84.

Published work The Impossible Takes Longer: The Memoirs of Vera Weizmann