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Isaac Herzog

Isaac Herzog is an Israeli politician and the country's current president, being the first president to have been born in Israel after the Declaration of Independence was announced.

In the past, Herzog had served several terms in the Knesset in the Labor Party and the Zionist Union in partnership with the Tzipi Livni-led Kadima.

His father, Chaim Herzog, was Israel's sixth president and his grandfather, Yitzhak Halevi Herzog, was chief rabbi of both Ireland and Israel. Currently, his brother Mike Herzog is Israel's ambassador to the US.

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 Israeli president Isaac Herzog speaks at a swearing in ceremony for newly appointed judges at the President's residence in Jerusalem, on April 18, 2024.

Appointment ceremony for 36 new judges emphasizes importance of consensus

Babylonian Talmud that survived the Holocaust gifted to Yad Vashem by President Herzog, April 17, 2024.

President Herzog gifts Babylonian Talmud that survived the Holocaust to Yad Vashem

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. April 17, 2024.

Netanyahu to UK, German FMs: Thanks, but we make our own decisions

 President Isaac Herzog speaks on Israel's judicial reform on February 12, 2023

Herzog honors three hostages mistakenly shot by IDF soldiers in Gaza

 Head of the Otzma Yehudit party and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on March 18, 2024.

Ben-Gvir: Time to attack; Michaeli: Stop Gaza war, bring back hostages

 Rabbi Yisroel Goldberg.

Grapevine: Making Seder

 ALUT celebrates 50 years at the annual event at the President's House. On the right Gadi Weinreb, Isaac Herzog, Dadi Atas, Ran and Hila Rahav.

ALUT celebrates 50 years

By Nir Raz
 An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays on the banks of a lake in Uman, Ukraine

Herzog adds final letter to Zelensky's wartime Torah for Ukrainian Jews

By Marcel Gascón Barberá/JTA
The Scojen Synthetic Biology Institute will be located in the new Drahi Innovation Building in Reichman University.

Grapevine April 3, 2024: Israeli dramas

 Elai Berger, brother of kidnapped IDF soldier Agam Berger, is also seen here celebrating his bar mitzvah.

Rabbi who lost son in Gaza: 'Hamas wanted to destroy us, but they strengthened us'

 PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog attends the opening in Tel Aviv in December of an exhibition of objects collected at the site of the Nova music festival.

Israelis are yearning for nonpartisanship in time of crisis

By DANA BLANDER
 Yoram Cohen speaks at the Makor Rishon conference in Sderot. March 19, 2024.

Former Shin Bet chief: 'Two-state solution a threat to Israel'

 Eswatini ambassador with President Isaac Herzog. March 13, 2024.

Five new ambassadors welcomed by Herzog, three from Africa affirm solidarity with Israel

 YITZHAK ELDAN, president of the Ambassadors’ Club of Israel, awards Lt.-Colonel Or Ben-Yehuda, commander of the Carakal Battalion of female combat soldiers, with a Woman of Valor citation.

Grapevine, March 13, 2024: Remembering Rabin

 Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrives at the Portuguese Synagogue on the day of the opening of the National Holocaust Museum, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 10, 2024.

'The people of Israel live': President Herzog comments on protest outside Dutch Holocaust museum

 Israeli President Isaac Herzog walks near the Portuguese Synagogue on the day of the opening of the National Holocaust Museum, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 10, 2024.

Herzog in Amsterdam: It is important to remember the Holocaust now antisemitism is rife

 US AMBASSADOR to Israel Jack Lew (right) attends the Conference of Presidents Leadership Mission to Israel in Jerusalem, last month, with the writer.

An inspiring visit to Israel during wartime

Israeli soldiers of Caracal battalion

Isaac Herzog: Women must have influence at all levels of decision-making