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Russian born chemist and Israeli statesman. A distinguished scientist, he became a British subject in 1910, developing a synthetic acetone that aided explosives production. He participated in the negotiations for a Jewish homeland that resulted in the 1917 Balfour Declaration and became the first president of Israel between 1949 and 1952. More at: History
From German chancellor Adolf Hitler’s 1930s and 1940s forecast ‘Thousand year Reich’ and the prediction in Japan’s 15th century Onin war that the victors would ‘flourish for ten thousand years’, history shows that predictions are folly. The best that can be done is to identify possible outcomes and seek to anticipate these and acknowledge that…
