Why did Einstein refuse to become the president of Israel in 1952?

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Despite his years as a proponent of Jewish history and culture, Einstein publicly stated reservations about the proposal to partition the British-supervised British Mandate of Palestine into independent Arab and Jewish countries. In a 1938 speech, "Our Debt to Zionism", he said: "I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain - especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state.

The United Nations did divide the mandate, demarcating the borders of several new countries including the State of Israel, and war broke out immediately. Einstein was one of the authors of a 1948 letter to the New York Times criticizing Menachem Begin's Revisionist Herut (Freedom) Party for the Deir Yassin massacre (Einstein et al. 1948). Einstein served on the Board of Governors of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In his Will of 1950, Einstein bequeathed literary rights to his writings to The Hebrew University, where many of his original documents are held in the Albert Einstein Archives.

When President Chaim Weizmann died in 1952, Einstein was asked to be Israel's second president but he declined. He wrote: "I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel, and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it.

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Simply because he was a genius.

He was intelligent enough to foresee the coming political maelstorm and probably didn't want to get dragged into the interminal conflict that was inevitable after partition.

Einstein, like Leonardo Da Vinci, did some of his most creative work toward the end of his life, which would have been lost to the world if he had had to waste his time in the muck and mire of Middle Eastern politics.

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He refused because he was a scientist and not a statesman he shouldn't have been offered the role in the first place he had no experience. Furthermore on the supposed rabbi comment ing above me you might like to note that besides form being and outspoken anti-zionist he also does not believe in the torah/taurat. He is incredulously misinformed and he brings shame to the title that he supposedly bares.

Answer 6

First, Einstein was a cultural Zionist. Cultural Zionism is a strain of the concept of Zionism that values Jewish culture and history, including language and historical roots, rather than other Zionist ideas such as Political Zionism.

Second, he might have known that he would not have enough time to continue his scientific researches had he become the second president of Israel.

Answer 7

Name me a single highly intelligent individual that wanted to get involved in politics if they did not have to.

Einstein was a scientist not a statesman and he was wise enough to understand that.

Answer 8

Simply b/c he thought he was too old and inexperienced to be president of a country- though president is mostly a ceremonial job, the real leader is the prime minister. Fact is that Einstein died in 1955, only 3 years later. Einstein was an avid zionist however.

Answer 9

it's just a guess
but from what i know about Einstein
he thought that he would have more fun being a scientist
then being a president

Answer 10

he said it was because he was a scientist, not a politician. but einstein was a big supporter of israel.