Zionist Commission

Chaim Weizmann and the Zionist Commission, 1918. Also pictured: Edwin Samuel, W.G.A. Ormsby-Gore, Israel Sieff, Leon Simon, James de Rothschild and Joseph Sprinzak.
Emir Feisal I (right) and Chaim Weizmann (also wearing Arab dress as a sign of friendship) in Syria in 1918. At this time Feisal was living in Syria not Iraq.

Zionist Commission for Palestine was a commission chaired by Chaim Weizmann, president of the British Zionist Federation[1] following British promulgation of the pro-Zionist, Balfour Declaration. The Commission was formed in March 1918 and went to Palestine to study conditions and submit recommendations to the British authorities.[2]

  1. ^ Plans Zionist Commission, New York Times, Feb. 13, 1918
  2. ^ History of Zionism, 1600-1918 by Nahum Sokolow