![Chaim Herzog, 1918-1997](https://israeled.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Historical-Herzog_Chaim-by-Yaacov-Saar-Israeli-GPO-1996-scaled.jpg)
A politician, lawyer, diplomat and writer who immigrated 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.
Photo: Ya’acov Sa’ar, Israeli Government Press Office