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- The Israeli parliament elected former opposition leader Isaac Herzog as president on Wednesday.
- On July 9, Herzog will take over the duties of former President Reuven Rivlin.
- The 60-year-old won the election by 87 to 26 votes against 67-year-old teacher and activist Miriam Peretz.
The elections took place in the midst of turmoil in the Israeli government: the right-wing conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to be replaced soon.
As president, Herzog expects an acting role above all else. The most important task is to pardon the prisoners and assign them to form a government.
Herzog descended from a political dynasty. His father, Chaim Herzog, was the president of Israel, and his uncle, the legendary former foreign minister Abba Eban. His grandfather was the chief rabbi before the establishment of the state in 1948.
Legend:
Isaac Herzog was opposed to Benjamin Netanyahu in the race for the premiership in 2015.
Reuters
Herzog first entered the Knesset in 2003 as a member of the Labor Party, and later held several ministerial positions. Leading the Labor Party, a father of three, since 2013.
He lost in the 2015 parliamentary elections as Netanyahu’s rival candidate for prime minister. In 2018, he became head of the Jewish Agency responsible for, among other things, immigration to Israel.
The President of the State of Israel is elected every seven years by secret ballot by Parliament.
SRF News 4, 02.06.2021, 12:00; agents/zero; aka
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