Last updated on:
9/10/2007 |
Author: ProCon.org
Chaim Herzog Biography
- Title:
- Former President of Israel
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Is a Two-State Solution (Israel and Palestine) an Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of Mar. 30, 2007
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Elected and served as President of Israel, 1983-1993
- Elected to Israeli Knesset as a member of the Alignment party, Member, Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee; Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, 1981 – 1983
- Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, 1975-1978
- Military Governor of Judea and Samaria (West Bank), June, 1967
- During Six Day War and Yom Kippur War was military analyst for Israeli radio and television
- General Manager of G.A.S. Industries, 1962-1972
- Head of Military Intelligence, and retired from the army with the rank of major-general, 1959-1962
- Head of Southern Command Staff, 1957-1959
- Commanded Jerusalem Brigade, 1954-1957
- IDF Attaché in United States and Canada, 1950-1954
- Head of Department of Intelligence of Military Intelligence, 1948-1950
- Joined IDF and was operations officer of 7th Brigade in Battle of Latrun, 1948
- Demobilized from British Army with rank of Colonel, 1946
- Served in British Army in WWII; participated in Normandy invasion and served in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany
- Active in Hagana, 1936
- Education:
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- University of London and Cambridge, certified as a lawyer
- Law School of the Government of Mandatory Palestine
- Graduate of Royal Military College
- Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem
- High School at Wesley College, Dublin, Ireland
- Other:
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- Born in Belfast, Ireland
- Son of notable Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, who was Chief Rabbi of Ireland from 1919 to 1937 (and later, of Palestine and Israel)
- 1935 – Emigrated from Ireland to British Mandate Palestine
- Died – Apr. 17, 1997