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Chaim Weizmann waited patiently for the one train that could take him to Cairo that day.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the departure time approached, so too, did two seemingly ancient men. Weizmann estimated that their combined age must have been 180.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Zionist leader had come to the Land of Israel as head of the Zionist Commission \u2013 a delegation of prominent figures tasked with gauging and laying down initial foundations for a Jewish state following the British government\u2019s Balfour Declaration the previous autumn.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Zionist Commission arriving in British-controlled Palestine in 1918.<\/a> From the “Palestine at the End of First World War” photo album, National Library of Israel archives. Click image to enlarge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The First World War was still raging and the Commission, which a few iterations later would become the Jewish Agency, faced a host of problems. The heterogenous group was ripe for internal division, with members from different countries and ideological persuasions. Its role and authority rather vague, the local British military command was all but unsupportive despite official backing from London. Poverty and disease were rampant and the internal politics of the small local Jewish community needed to be addressed, as did the concerns and opposition of the local Arab population, which the Commission sought to engage in productive dialogue.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Zionist Commission visiting a school in Nes Ziona, 1918.<\/a> From the “Palestine at the End of First World War” photo album, National Library of Israel archives. Click image to enlarge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All of these issues and many more were on Chaim Weizmann\u2019s mind one day in September 1918 as the elderly men approached him.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his autobiography, <\/span>Trial and Error<\/span><\/i><\/a>, Weizmann recalled how besides the men\u2019s age, the thing that immediately struck him was that he did not recognize either of them:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cBy this time I was under the impression that I had met every man, woman and child in the Jewish community of fifty thousand, most of them several times.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They looked closely at Weizmann and his luggage.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cBut you are not really going away? You can\u2019t go yet. There are still some matters of importance to be settled here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The brilliant scientist and statesman knew very well that there were in fact many matters of importance that remained to be settled \u2013 some of them for decades to come.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, while poverty, disease and conflict may indeed have troubled the men, those were not the issues about which they had come to talk to Weizmann.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDo you not know that the Feast of Tabernacles [Sukkot] is almost upon us, and we have no myrtles?,\u201d they asked, referring to one of the \u201cFour Species\u201d required to properly observe the holiday in accordance with Jewish law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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An old Jewish man holding myrtle branches, ca. 1920<\/a> (Photo: Fran\u00e7ois Scholten). This photo is part of the Israel Archive Network project and has been made accessible thanks to the collaborative efforts of the Yad Ben Zvi Archive, the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage and the National Library of Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThough I was familiar enough with the need for myrtles\u2026 it had somehow slipped my mind, and it had not occurred to me to include this particular job among the many chores of the Zionist Commission, operating in the midst of a bloody war,\u201d Weizmann recalled in his memoirs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not fazed, he responded, \u201cSurely you can get myrtles from Egypt,\u201d to which the old men looked pained:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201c…one must have myrtles of the finest quality. These come from Trieste. In a matter of high religious importance, surely General Allenby will be willing to send instructions to Trieste for the shipment of myrtles.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Weizmann explained that the world was at war and that Trieste was located in enemy territory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut this is a purely religious matter,\u201d one of the men responded, \u201ca matter of peace. Myrtles are, indeed, the very symbol of peace\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As the time for his train\u2019s departure neared, Weizmann, ever the visionary pragmatist, tried persuading the two men that they would simply have to do with inferior Egyptian myrtles. Though seemingly oblivious to the geopolitical realities of a world war, the ancient men in fact did know something about importation restrictions and pointed out to Chaim Weizmann that myrtles could not be brought from Egypt because a quarantine was in place and the British authorities forbade importation of plants from Egypt to Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Somewhat stumped and soon to miss his train, Weizmann promised the men that he would make every possible effort to secure a myrtle supply in time for Sukkot, yet he had no idea how exactly he might do that.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI travelled down to Egypt genuinely worried over this question of myrtles and the quarantine; and even more worried by the responsibility for some thousands of people living, like these two old gentlemen, in a world of their own so remote from ours that they seemed as unreal to us as the war did to them. By the time I fell asleep in the train I was no longer sure what was, in fact, real, the war or the Feast of Tabernacles.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The countless other issues at stake and meetings in Cairo all but drove the myrtle promise from Chaim Weizmann\u2019s mind. Yet then, just before his boat sailed and he took leave of General Allenby, the legendary liberator of Jerusalem (not Trieste) exclaimed:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cBy the way, about those myrtles!\u00a0 You know, it is an important business; it\u2019s all in the Bible; I read it up in the Book of Nehemiah last night. Well, you\u2019ll be glad to hear that we have lifted the quarantine, and a consignment of myrtles will get to Palestine in good time for the Feast of Tabernacles!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

—<\/p>\n

This article has been published as part of\u00a0Gesher L\u2019Europa<\/a>, the National Library of Israel\u2019s initiative to connect with people, institutions and communities across Europe and beyond, through storytelling, knowledge sharing and community engagement.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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