Veteran politician, Isaac Herzog has been elected as Israel’s President, defeating an educator, Miriam Peretz.
Gatekeepers News reports Herzog was elected Israel’s 11th president in an anonymous vote which was held among the 120 members of the Knesset.
Herzog, 60, will succeed Reuven Rivlin who is set to leave office next month (July 9) after ruling for seven years.
The President-elect is a former head of Israel’s Labour Party and opposition leader who unsuccessfully ran against Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu in the 2015 parliamentary elections.
Herzog is from a prominent Israeli family. His father, Chaim Herzog, was Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations before being elected president. His uncle, Abba Eban, was Israel’s first foreign minister and ambassador to the United Nations and the United States. His grandfather was the country’s first chief rabbi.
