Veteran politician Isaac Herzog has been elected the eleventh President of Israel in a secret poll within the Knesset (Parliament).
The 60-year-old former Labor chief, who’s the son of a former president, will grow to be Israel’s first president. His father, Chaim Herzog, served as Israel’s head of state between 1983 and 1993.
Herzog received the assist of 87 lawmakers within the 120-member home and defeated his rival Miriam Peretz by a snug margin.
He will formally change outgoing President Reuven Rivlin subsequent month, his seven-year time period starting July 9.
Herzog thanked all of the lawmakers who voted for him and stated it was an honor to serve the whole folks of Israel.
“I will be the president of all,” stated Herzog.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Herzog on being elected as the subsequent President of Israel. “I wish them all the best in the name of Israeli citizens,” he stated.
Herzog was Netanyahu’s rival within the 2015 elections for prime minister.
Herzog is presently the top of the Jewish Agency – a non-profit group that works with the federal government to advertise immigration into Israel. He has served as a legislator within the Israel Knesset between 2003 and 2018, in addition to as a minister with varied portfolios.
His grandfather, Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog, was Ireland’s first main rabbi for greater than a decade, after which the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine from 1936 to 1959.
The president-elect started his political profession as cupboard secretary to Prime Minister Ehud Barak between 1999 and 2000.
His rival Peretz, a social activist who overcame the defeat of his two sons within the warfare to grow to be an Israel Prize-winning instructor and public speaker coping with Zionism-related points and pitfalls, obtained 27 votes.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
