Chaim Weizmann, one of the key founders of Zionism and later President of Israel, was asked before WWII: “Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?”
He replied, “No.… From the depths of the tragedy I want to save … young people [for Palestine]. The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They are dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world … Only the branch of the young shall survive. They have to accept it.” (Chaim Weizmann reporting to the Zionist Congress in 1937 on his testimony before the Peel Commission in London).
