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Builds his home in Rehovot next to the Sieff Institute. The house is planned by the well-known Jewish architect Erich Mendelsohn. In the wake of the Arab riots, the British Government sends a commission of inquiry headed by Lord Peel. Weizmann testifies before the royal commission on December 25, 1936, stating, “When speaking about the Jewish nation, one is speaking about a nation that is a minority everywhere but is not a majority anywhere…It has the spirit of a nation without a body, and it therefore arouses suspicion, and suspicion gives birth to hatred.