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Motti Golani

Motti Golani chairs the Jewish History Department at Tel Aviv University, where he also heads the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel. He is the author of many books, most recently the third and final volume of the biography of Chaim Weizmann, with Jehuda Reinharz, which will be forthcoming from Brandeis University Press in English in 2024.

Spring 2024

You May View the Land from a Distance: Chaim Weizmann, May 1948

Jehuda Reinharz, Motti Golani

On the day the State of Israel declared independence, Chaim Weizmann lay ill and exhausted in a New York hotel room, waiting to hear if his rivals in Tel Aviv would recognize his achievements.

Spring 2023

History—and Israel—from the Outside In

Motti Golani, Jehuda Reinharz

Chaim Weizmann's outsider view of the Yishuv often led to conflict with the Zionist leaders based in British Mandatory Palestine. But it was precisely that perspective that present-day historians (and arguably Israelis) would do well to recover.