Jacob Rothschild Admits His Family Was Involved In Creating Israel

Jacob Rothschild: It was the greatest event in Jewish life for thousands of years, a miracle It took 3, 000 years to get to this. It was the most incredible piece of opportunism. You had an impoverished wouldbe scientist, Chaim Weizmann, who somehow gets to England, meets a few people, including members of my family, seduces them, he has such charm and conviction, he gets to Balfour, and unbelievably, he persuades Lord Balfour, and Lloyd George, the prime minister, and most of the ministers, that this