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Home › Explore & Learn › Israel@75 / › Biographies › Chaim Herzog, 1918-1997

Chaim Herzog, 1918-1997

A politician, lawyer, diplomat and writer who immigrated from Ireland to Israel in 1935, Herzog was Israel’s sixth president. He led IDF military intelligence after the War of Independence. When the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution declaring Zionism a form of racism in 1975, he was the ambassador to the United Nations and shredded the text. He was the father of Israel’s 11th president, Isaac Herzog. His writing includes several books about Israel’s history.

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