Obituary: Chaim Herzog

The Independent (London, England) | April 18, 1997| | Copyright

Chaim Herzog crammed at least half a dozen careers into his life. He spent more than 20 years in the military, but he also practised law, spent a decade as a businessman, represented Israel's Labour party in parliament and wrote many books on Israel's history before in 1983 becoming Israel's sixth president.

Like most of the major figures in modern Israeli politics - with the exception of Moshe Dayan - Herzog was born outside the Middle East, in his case in Belfast, in 1918. He came from a family that was not merely Jewish, but rabbinical: his father Isaac Herzog was Chief Rabbi in Ireland ...

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