Isaac Herzog
Isaac "Bougie" Herzog is an Israeli politician who has been serving since 2021 as the 11th president of Israel. He is the first president to be born in Israel after its Declaration of Independence.
Some of the key events about Isaac Herzog
- 1992Elected to the executive committee of the Israeli Labor Party
- 1999Appointed as the Government Secretary in Ehud Barak's cabinet
- 2003Elected to the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) for the first time
- 2005Appointed as Minister of Housing and Construction
- 2006Served as Minister of Tourism
- 2007Became Minister of Welfare and Social Services
- 2013Elected as the leader of the Labor Party
- 2015Led the Zionist Union alliance in the general election
- 2015Faced criticism for comments suggesting that assimilation was a "silent Holocaust" for diaspora Jews
- 2016Received backlash for comparing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a couple going through a divorce
- 2018Elected as the Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel
- 2018Sparked controversy by suggesting that intermarriage and assimilation among American Jews was "like a second Holocaust"
- 2019Criticized for meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte despite human rights concerns
- 2021Elected as the 11th President of Israel
- 2021Drew criticism for his handling of tensions at the Western Wall regarding egalitarian prayer spaces
- 2022Faced controversy over his decision to light the first Hanukkah candle at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron
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