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Isaac Herzog
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Person

Isaac Herzog

b. 1960

President of Israel since 2021

Born
22 Sept 1960 · Tel Aviv
Part ofIsrael1,457 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 76 years
  1. 22 Sept 1960BornBorn in Tel Aviv
  2. 2003 – 2006RoleKnesset member
  3. 2006 – 2008RoleKnesset member
  4. 2006 – 2007RoleMinister of Tourism
  5. 2007 – 2011RoleMinister of Welfare and Social Services
  6. 2008 – 2009RoleKnesset member
  7. 2009 – 2013RoleKnesset member
  8. 2013 – 2015RoleKnesset member
  9. 2015 – 2018RoleKnesset member
  10. 2021RolePresident of Israel
  11. 2022AwardOrder of Makarios III

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1960 – today).

  1. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  3. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  5. 1968Prague Spring
  6. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  7. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  8. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  9. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  10. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  11. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  12. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  13. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  14. 1985Schengen Agreement
  15. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  16. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  17. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  19. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  21. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  22. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  23. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  24. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  25. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  26. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  27. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  28. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  29. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  30. 20112011 Norway attacks
  31. 2011Libyan civil war
  32. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  33. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  34. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  35. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  36. 2015Paris Agreement
  37. 20182018 FIFA World Cup
  38. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  39. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  40. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war

Biography

Isaac Herzog (Hebrew: יִצְחָק הֶרְצוֹג, romanized: Yitskhak Hertsog; born 22 September 1960), also known as Buji, is an Israeli politician who has been serving since 2021 as the 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 by profession and had served as Government Secretary from 1999 to 2001. He was a member of the Knesset from 2003 to 2018. He has held several ministerial posts between 2005 and 2011, including serving as Minister of Welfare and Social Services from 2007 to 2011 under prime ministers Ehud Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Herzog had served as Chairman of the Labor Party and the Zionist Union alliance from 2013 to 2017. He served as Leader of the Opposition from 2013 to 2018 and was the Labor Party candidate for prime minister during the 2015 Israeli legislative election. Herzog was elected in the 2021 Israeli presidential election and was inaugurated on 7 July 2021. He is the first son of an Israeli president to become president himself.

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