Israel’s parliamentarians elected Isaac Herzog as Israel’s new president on Wednesday, succeeding Reuven Rivlin, whose seven-year term expires on June 9 without being able to run for re-election. 60-year-old, has obtained 87 of the 120 votes of the parliamentarians and has thus imposed himself on his rival, the activist Miriam Peretz, according to the newspaper ‘The Times of Israel’. The politician, who has an important influence in the country and started as a favorite, he is the son of former President Chaim Herzog, as well as the grandson of Israel’s first chief rabbi. He is also the current chairman of Israel’s Jewish Agency. Peretz, 67, born in Morocco, aspired to become the first woman to be elected as President of Israel – Dalia Itzik served for several months in 2007 after the resignation of Moshe Katsav on rape charges. The activist lost a son during the war in Lebanon and her brother in an operation near the Gaza Strip in 2010. The figure of the president is essentially ceremonial in Israel, although he has the authority to give the mandate to form a government. The president is elected every seven years through a secret ballot among the 120 members of Parliament. Rivlin, who gave the mandate to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form an Executive after the March elections, later transferred him to the leader of Yesh Atid, Yair Lapid, after the prime minister failed to reach an agreement in his 28-day deadline.The talks to form the new Executive have made progress in recent days, although at the moment a majority has not been closed that could remove the acting prime minister, popularly known as ‘Bibi’, from power. on a possible agreement between Lapid and the leader of the right-wing Yamina, Naftali Bennet, who could agree to rotate the post of prime minister with the aim of removing from power Netanyahu, the person who has held the position for the longest time in history. from the country.
