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'President of the State') is the head of state of Israel. The president is mostly, though not entirely, ceremonial; actual executive power is vested in the cabinet led by the prime minister. The incumbent president is Isaac Herzog, who took office on 7 July 2021. Presidents are elected by the Knesset for a single seven-year term.
Isaac "Bougie" Herzog (Hebrew: יצחק "בוז׳י" הרצוג, romanized: Yitskhak "Buzhi" Hertsog; born 22 September 1960) is an Israeli politician who has been serving since 2021 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 ...
Eleven people have served as President of Israel, four of whom have served two consecutive terms. Another, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, was elected to three consecutive terms, although he died in office soon after the beginning of his third term. Isaac Herzog has been serving as the 11th President of Israel since 2021.
1967 photograph of Netanyahu by the Israel Defense Forces. Netanyahu was born in 1949 in Tel Aviv. [3] [4] His mother, Tzila Segal (1912–2000), was born in Petah Tikva in the Ottoman Empire's Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, and his father, Warsaw-born Benzion Netanyahu (né Mileikowsky; 1910–2012), was a historian specializing in the Jewish Golden age of Spain.
Now, Israel is deeply concerned about Turkey's role as a close ally of Syria's new rulers, three U.S. sources said, describing the messages delivered by Israeli officials. Turkish President Tayyip ...
Israeli Knesset, Jerusalem. The Prime Minister is the most powerful political figure in the country. Under sections 7 to 14 of Basic Law: The Government, the Prime Minister is nominated by the President after consulting party leaders in the Knesset; the appointment of the Prime Minister and cabinet is in turn confirmed by a majority vote of confidence from the assembled Knesset members. [4]
Israel's President Isaac Herzog addressed the U.N. on Monday at its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day event. His speech comes as a new report shows a worrying rise in antisemitic attitudes globally.
On 30 December 2010, Israel's former President Moshe Katsav was convicted of two counts of rape, obstruction of justice, and other sexual offences by a court in Tel Aviv. Moshe Katsav – the 8th president of the State of Israel.