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Article: Obituary: Chaim Herzog
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 18, 1997
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Chaim Herzog crammed at least half a dozen careers into his
life. He spent more than 20 years in the military, but he also
practised law, spent a decade as a businessman, represented
Israel's Labour party in parliament and wrote many books on
Israel's history before in 1983 becoming Israel's sixth president.
Like most of the major figures in modern Israeli politics - with
the exception of Moshe Dayan - Herzog was born outside the Middle
East, in his case in Belfast, in 1918. He came from a family that
was not merely Jewish, but rabbinical: his father Isaac Herzog was
Chief Rabbi in Ireland and, later, the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi
when Israel gained independence in 1948.
His brother ...