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President Of The State Of Israel
The president of the State of Israel ( he, נְשִׂיא מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, Nesi Medinat Yisra'el, or he, נְשִׂיא הַמְדִינָה, Nesi HaMedina, President of the State) is the head of state of Israel. The position is largely a ceremonial role, with executive power vested in the cabinet led by the prime minister. The incumbent president is Isaac Herzog, who took office on 7 July 2021. Presidents are elected by the Knesset for a single seven-year term. Election The President of Israel is elected by an absolute majority in the Knesset, by secret ballot. If no candidate receives an absolute majority of votes in the first or second round of voting, the candidate with the least votes is eliminated in each subsequent round, if needed until only two remain. From 1949 to 2000, the president was elected for a five-year term, and was allowed to serve up to two terms in office. Since 2000, the president serves a single seven-year term. Any Israeli resid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Herzog
Isaac "Bougie" Herzog ( he, יצחק "בוז׳י" הרצוג, Yitskhak "Buzhi" Hertsog; born 22 September 1960) is an Israeli politician who has been serving as the 11th president of Israel since 2021. He is the first president to be born in Israel after its Declaration of Independence. Son of former Israeli president Chaim Herzog, he is a lawyer by profession and served as the Government Secretary from 1999 and 2001. He was a member of the Knesset from 2003 to 2018. He held several ministerial posts between 2005 and 2011, including serving as Minister of Welfare and Social Services from 2007 to 2011 under prime ministers Ehud Olmert and Benjamin Netanyahu. He served as chairman of the Labor Party and the Zionist Union alliance from 2013 and 2017. He served as the Leader of the Opposition from 2013 to 2018 and was the Labor Party candidate for prime minister during the 2015 elections. He was elected in the 2021 Israeli presidential election and was inaugurated on 7 July 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 Israeli Presidential Election
An election for President of Israel was held in the Knesset on 8 December 1952 following the death of the Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann on 9 November. Between Weizmann's death and the winner of the election, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, taking office on 16 December, Knesset speaker Yosef Sprinzak served as acting president. Candidates There were four candidates: *Yitzhak Ben-Zvi: One of the founders of Mapai (the ruling party, for whom he was a member of the Knesset) and the Histadrut (the country's largest trade union), a former president of the Vaad Leumi, signatory of the Israel declaration of independence and a personal friend of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. *Peretz Bernstein: A member of the Knesset for the General Zionists and also a signatory of the country's declaration of independence. *Yitzhak Gruenbaum: A signatory of the Israeli declaration of independence, a minister in the provisional government, and though an adherent of Mapam, not a member of any political par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Israeli Presidential Election
Indirect presidential elections were held in Israel on 13 June 2007. The Knesset elected Shimon Peres, a former Prime Minister and a member of the Kadima party. His opponents were Reuven Rivlin, a former Knesset speaker, of the Likud Party, and Colette Avital, of the Labor party. After the first round of voting put Peres in a commanding lead, but just short of the absolute majority required for election, Rivlin and Avital bowed out and Peres was elected easily in the second round. Candidates The deadline for candidates to announce their intention to run was twenty days before the election, i.e. by 25 May.Knesset panel agrees on June 13 for presidential election Haaretz, 9 May 2007 Avital was the first Labor candidate to officially announce her intention to run. She gained the backing of for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Israeli Presidential Election
An election for President of Israel was held in the Knesset on 31 July 2000, Knesset website following 's resignation. History , a politician, ran against Shimon Peres, a previous |
1998 Israeli Presidential Election
An election for President of Israel was held in the Knesset on 4 March 1998. Knesset website It was the first time an incumbent was challenged. stood against , but Weizman was re-elected by a vote of 63 to 49. Results References {{Israeli presidential elections[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Israeli Presidential Election
An election for President of Israel was held in the Knesset on 24 March 1993, Knesset website following the end of 's second five-year term in office. History , former commander and , ran aga ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Israeli Presidential Election
An election for President of Israel was held in the Knesset on 23 February 1988. Knesset website stood for re-election as as an unopposed candidate. Results References {{Israeli presidential elections Presidential election Single-candidate e ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Israeli Presidential Election
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Israeli Presidential Election
An election for President of Israel was held in the Knesset on 19 April 1978. Knesset website History , who was elected in 1973, declined to stand for a second term due to his wife's illness. ran unopposed for the position. Navon's term began on the day of the election. He held office until 1983, when |
1973 Israeli Presidential Election
An election for President of Israel was held in the Knesset on 10 April 1973. Knesset website was elected to the position in a secret ballot. Katzir's first term began on the day of the election. It would be characterized by the that took place later in that year. He would hold this position until 1978, when would be elected as the new president. Results |
1968 Israeli Presidential Election
An election for President of Israel was held in the Knesset on 26 March 1968. Knesset website Zalman Shazar, who was elected in 1963 following the death of Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, ran unopposed for the position. Shazar's second term began on the day of the election. He would hold this position until 1973, when Ephraim Katzir was elected as the new President. Results References {{Israeli presidential elections 1968 elections in Israel 1968 in Israel, Presidential election Single-candidate elections Presidential elections in Israel, 1968 March 1968 events in Asia ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ( he, יִצְחָק בֶּן־צְבִי ''Yitshak Ben-Tsvi''; 24 November 188423 April 1963) was a historian, Labor Zionism, Labor Zionist leader and the longest-serving President of Israel. Biography Born in Poltava in the Russian Empire (today in Ukraine), Ben-Zvi was the eldest son of Zvi Shimshelevich, who later took the name ''Shimshi''. A member of the B'ne Moshe and Hoveve Zion movements in Ukraine, he was (with Theodor Herzl) one of the organizers of the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, in the fall of 1897. At that Congress the World Zionist Organization was founded, and the intention to re-establish a Jewish state was announced. Shimshi was the only organizer of the first Zionist Congress to live to see the birth of the modern State of Israel in 1948. On 10 December 1952, Zvi Shimshi was honored by the first Israeli Knesset (parliament) with the title "Father of the State of Israel". Yitzhak Ben-Zvi's parents were banished to Siberia fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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