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- Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog will be the 11th president of the State of Israel after he received 87 votes from MKs in a secret ballot vote in the Knesset plenum. Herzog’s opponent, Israel Prize-winning educator Miriam Peretz, received 27 votes and three MKs abstained.
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Jun 2, 2021 · Herzog defeated Miriam Peretz, a social activist who overcame the loss of two of her sons in battle to become an Israel Prize-winning educator, with 87 votes, the most a presidential...
- Isaac Herzog: Israel’s unassuming and pedigreed new president
He won easily over Miriam Peretz — an Israel Prize-winning...
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Jewish Agency chairman and former Labor Party chief Isaac...
- Isaac Herzog: Israel’s unassuming and pedigreed new president
Jun 3, 2021 · Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog will be the 11th president of the State of Israel after he received 87 votes from MKs in a secret ballot vote in the Knesset plenum. Herzog’s opponent,...
May 31, 2021 · May 31, 2021. UPDATE: Isaac Herzog wins Israeli presidential election, defeating Miriam Peretz. Miriam Peretz and Isaac Herzog are two halves of the perfect president of Israel. The country’s top satire show, “Eretz Nehederet” (“A Wonderful Country”), hit on the idea in a parody of a debate featuring the final two candidates vying for the post.
In May 2021, Peretz announced that she would run for president of Israel in the 2021 election. Presidential candidates must secure the support of at least 10 members of the Knesset in order to run in the election, which Peretz did. She ended up losing the election to Isaac Herzog, 26–87. Personal life
Jun 2, 2021 · Herzog defeated Miriam Peretz, 67, an educator who was seen as a down-to-earth outsider close to the country’s dominant conservative and nationalist political camp. Herzog has served as head of the Jewish Agency, a nonprofit that works closely with the government to promote immigration to Israel, for the past three years since resigning from ...
