Veteran politician Herzog elected eleventh president of Israel

Veteran politician Isaac Herzog has been elected Israel’s eleventh president in a secret poll within the Knesset (parliament).
The 60-year-old former Labor chief would be the first Israeli President who’s the son of a former president. His father Chaim Herzog served as Israel’s Head of State between 1983 and 1993.
Herzog received the help of an awesome 87 lawmakers within the 120-member home defeating his rival Miriam Peretz with a cushty margin.
He will formally change outgoing President Reuven Rivlin subsequent month, together with his seven-year time period starting on July 9.
Herzog thanked all of the lawmakers who voted for him and mentioned it was an honour to serve your entire individuals of Israel.
“I will be the president of everyone,” Herzog mentioned.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Herzog on his election as Israel’s subsequent president. “I want him luck within the title of all Israeli residents, he mentioned.
Herzog was Netanyahu’s opponent within the 2015 elections for prime minister.
Herzog is presently the top of the Jewish Agency – a nonprofit that works with the federal government to advertise immigration to Israel. He has served as a lawmaker within the Israeli Knesset between 2003 and 2018, additionally serving as minister with numerous portfolios.
His grandfather, Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog, was each the primary chief rabbi of Ireland, for over a decade, after which Ashkenazi chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine from 1936 till 1959.
The President-elect started his political profession because the Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Ehud Barak between 1999 and 2000.
His rival Peretz, a social activist who overcame the lack of two of her sons in battle to turn out to be an Israel Prize successful educator and public speaker on points associated to Zionism and coping with loss, obtained 27 votes.