Why Albert Einstein Turned Down The Presidency Of Israel

Sure, "let's ask AlbertEinstein to be the president" is the kind of thought that sounds just amazing at first. Besides, the people of Israel did hold him in extremely high regard, to the point that they considered him "the greatest Jew alive." Einstein, however, wasn't a genius for nothing, and as Evan Andrews ofHistorytells us,

Sure, "let's ask Albert Einstein to be the president" is the kind of thought that sounds just amazing at first. Besides, the people of Israel did hold him in extremely high regard, to the point that they considered him "the greatest Jew alive." Einstein, however, wasn't a genius for nothing, and as Evan Andrews of History tells us, he was able to deftly deduce that his success in this particular job would be limited, to say the least.  

Weirdly, the fact that the theoretical physicist was already 73 years old at the time didn't play a part in his declining the honor, or at least he didn't state it as the reason. Instead, the letter he sent to an Israeli ambassador plainly stated that he couldn't handle the social and ceremonial aspects of presidency. "All my life I have dealt with objective matters," the Nobel laureate wrote. "Hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official function." 

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