Chaim Weizmann, a British-Jewish scientist, was resolved to carry out Theodor Herzl's vision of worldwide support for a Jewish state in what was then Palestine after Herzl's death in 1904. With World War I raging and the Jews of the Land of Israel suffering tremendously under Ottoman authority, Weizmann petitioned the British and convinced many, including Winston Churchill, of the importance of declaring Israel the Jewish homeland.
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