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Isaac Herzog
President of Israel since
This article is about the President of Israel. For his grandfather, the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland and later of Israel, see Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog.
Isaac "Bougie" Herzog (Hebrew: יצחק "בוז׳י" הרצוג, romanized:&#;Yitskhak "Buzhi" Hertsog; born 22 September ) is an Israeli politician who has been serving since as the 11th president of Israel. He is the first president to have been born in Israel after its Declaration of Independence.
Son of former Israeli president Chaim Herzog, he is a lawyer bygd profession and had served as Government Secretary from to He was a member of the Knesset from to He has held several ministerial posts between and , including serving as Minister of Welfare and Social Services from to under prime ministers Ehud Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Herzog had served as Chairman of the Labor Party and the Zionist Union alliance from to He served as Leader of the Opposition from to and was the Labor Party can
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Isaac Herzog
Isaac “Bougie” Herzog is an Israeli politician who was elected president in May
Herzog was born on September 22, , in Tel Aviv to a prominent Zionist family. His grandfather, Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, was the country’s Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi. His father, Chaim Herzog, served as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations and President of the State of Israel.
Herzog lived in New York and attended the Ramaz School. In the following years, while also studying in high school, Herzog gained an advanced academic education at Cornell University and New York University.
When he returned to Israel at the end of , he enlisted in the IDF and served as a major officer in Unit of the Intelligence Corps. Herzog left the army with the rank of major
Herzog subsequently earned a law grad from Tel Aviv University and went to work at a law firm founded by his father, Herzog, Fox & Ne’eman
Before winning his first election to the Knesset, Herzog served as Secretary of the Economic