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World Jewish News
Chaim Weizmann's House to Become a Historic and Cultural Center
01.06.2009
The house where Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, was born and raised will become a historic and cultural center.
The small country estate is located in the village of Motol, Brest region. Before the Second World War, the village was considered a classic Jewish shtetl, which according to the legend, was founded by Jews.
The new owner Sergei Musiyenko, head of the Belarusian analytical center "EkooM," wants to create a museum of great people - natives of the province, and to bring tourists there. S. Musiyenko mostly expects not foreign, but local tourists.
Sergei Musiyenko plans to build a whole complex in Motol, dedicated to Weizmann and Shaul Lieberman, who was also born in the town of Motol and was an outstanding researcher of the Talmud and Judaism.
He commented on his purchase as follows: "For me, Chaim Weizmann embodies a decent man and a responsible politician. Therefore I want to do something decent for his memory on the Belarusian land," writes the Jewish newspaper "Berega."
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