Isaac Herzog
Some of the key events about Isaac Herzog
- 1992Elected to the executive committee of the Israeli Labor Party
- 1999Appointed as the Government Secretary in Ehud Barak's cabinet
- 2003Elected to the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) for the first time
- 2005Appointed as Minister of Housing and Construction
- 2006Served as Minister of Tourism
- 2007Became Minister of Welfare and Social Services
- 2013Elected as the leader of the Labor Party
- 2015Led the Zionist Union alliance in the general election
- 2015Faced criticism for comments suggesting that assimilation was a "silent Holocaust" for diaspora Jews
- 2016Received backlash for comparing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a couple going through a divorce
- 2018Elected as the Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel
- 2018Sparked controversy by suggesting that intermarriage and assimilation among American Jews was "like a second Holocaust"
- 2019Criticized for meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte despite human rights concerns
- 2021Elected as the 11th President of Israel
- 2021Drew criticism for his handling of tensions at the Western Wall regarding egalitarian prayer spaces
- 2022Faced controversy over his decision to light the first Hanukkah candle at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron
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