The book cover is a fine example of Bezalel metalwork, and the Bible inside features a dedicatory inscription by Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel. Weizmann presented the book to his personal assistant Frieda Goldsmith. The book brings together Weizmann's two passions: Zionism, the ideology also espoused by the Bezalel School, and science, since the book was dedicated to Frieda Goldsmith, Weizmann's personal assistant when he was working as a scientist in Rehovot in the 1940s prior to the establishment of the State of Israel.
Russian-born Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952) was the first president of the State of Israel (1948-1952) and a prominent scientist. In 1906 he settled in England, where he devoted himself to science and Zionist politics, being instrumental in the issuing of the Balfour Declaration (1917), which expressed British sympathy for the Zionist cause. A founder of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he also established an institute for scientific research in Rehovot in the early 1930s, which would become the Weizmann Institute in 1949.