Israel Elects Isaac Herzog as 11th President
As a teenager, Herzog attended Camp Ramah Palmer in Massachusetts. By Jan Jaben-Eilon June 3, 2021, 3:47 pm Edit
Isaac Herzog is described as a “mensch,” even as a teenager.
The president-elect of Israel, Isaac Herzog, is a known figure to many in the American Jewish community, including in Atlanta. He comes from a line of Israel leaders, including his father Chaim Herzog, the sixth president of the Jewish state and has visited Atlanta many times.
When asked for one word to describe the person who will fill the mostly ceremonial post in Israel as of July 9, Atlantan Jed Rosenfeld said “mensch.” Rosenfeld recalls the summer of 1976 when he, as a 20-year-old, attended Camp Ramah Palmer in Massachusetts, one of the oldest Ramah camps. He vividly recalls a couple of Israeli siblings who were campers.
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May. 31, 2021 4:18 PM
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.
While the actor portraying Herzog robotically rattled off his impressive qualifications, the actress playing Peretz couldn’t stop emoting about her deep affection for Israel and preaching to the country’s warring tribes to hug it out.
“You know, you two really complete each other,” the moderator noted, suggesting they run as a team