Isaac Herzog is an Israeli politician and the country's current president, being the first president to have been born in Israel after the Declaration of Independence was announced.
In the past, Herzog had served several terms in the Knesset in the Labor Party and the Zionist Union in partnership with the Tzipi Livni-led Kadima.
His father, Chaim Herzog, was Israel's sixth president and his grandfather, Yitzhak Halevi Herzog, was chief rabbi of both Ireland and Israel. Currently, his brother Mike Herzog is Israel's ambassador to the US.
Emphasizing that Israel is now going through a very crucial period, Herzog spoke of embracing the families of all the hostages still in Gaza, and voiced a fervent prayer that they all come home soon.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for a "crushing attack" on Iran, while MK Merav Michaeli argued that Israel should utilize the event to strike a hostage deal with Hamas.
The ALUT association celebrated the anniversary of the late Leah Rabin, the first president of ALUT, marking the 50th anniversary of ALUT's founding.
The writing of the Torah was an initiative of the Kyiv chief rabbi, Yonatan Markowitz.
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A look at the data shows just how strong is the desire of Israeli Jews, and to some extent of their fellow Arab citizens, to place the country above all partisan, ideological, and sectoral divides.
"On the one hand, we witnessed the monstrous infrastructure that developed in the years after Israel's departure from the Gaza Strip and its brutality.
Despite the criticism leveled against Israel by several countries, diplomatic relations, for the most part, remain intact.
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