On February 7, 1939 one of the numerous Palestine Conferences was opened in the St. James Palace in London, during which the British mandatory power attempted to balance the permanent conflict between the Arabs and the Jews. Among the participants were the Zionist Leader Chaim Weizman, President of the Zionist World Organization from 1920 and in 1949 the first President of Israel (front, middle) and next to him on the right is Ben Gurion, later Prime Minister of Israel for many years. In the back center is the English Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
