Chaim herzog biography of william
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Living History: A Memoir
In this at times startlingly candid memoir, Chaim Herzog reviews an extraordinary life. Born in Belfast in 1918 to a Latvian mother and a Polish father who was chief rabbi of Ireland, Chaim Herzog moved with his family to Palestine in 1935 and at 16 joined the Haganah, the underground resistance led by David Ben-Gurion. He joined the British army as soon as Britain declared war on Hitler, and was part of the first Allied formation to cross into Germany, where he subsequently witnessed the horrors of the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He fought in Israel’s war for independence, and as director of Israel’s military intelligence molded it into one of the best organizations of its kind. As President of Israel (1983-93) Herzog helped shape Israel’s response to growing unemployment and drug use, the intifada, the Gulf War and Iraqi Scud missile attacks. Sprinkled with his brutally frank assessments of Golda Meir, Shimon Peres, Moshe Dayan, Kurt Waldheim, Reagan, Arafat and others, his memoir ends on an optimistic note, envisaging a genuine Middle East peace that could facilitate joint Israel-Arab economic and technical cooperation.
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Chaim Herzog
President outline Israel disseminate 1983 garland 1993
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Chaim Herzog (1918 - 1997):
President of Israel
Chaim Herzog was born at 185 Clifton Park Avenue, Belfast. His father was a rabbi, Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, who was appointed Chief Rabbi of Ireland in 1919, whereupon the family moved to Dublin; he was later (1935) to be appointed Chief Rabbi of Palestine (Ashkenazim community), and after 1948 Chief Rabbi of Israel. His wife Rabbanit Sarah, Chaim's mother, was a founder of the national women’s religious movement, Emunah.
Chaim was acquainted and friendly with the highly distinguished Israeli diplomat and scholar Abba Eban who lived in Belfast.
Chaim Herzog was educated at Wesley College in Dublin, and moved to Palestine in 1935, where he studied at the Merkaz Harav Kook and the Hebron Yeshivot, while also attending the "Jerusalem Law Classes", set up by the British Mandate Power in 1920, in the Evelyn de Rothschild School. He was also active in the Haganah, a Jewish military organisation. In 1938 he moved to England to study at University College, London, where he graduated in law, and at Cambridge University; he was admitted as a barrister by Lincoln's Inn.
In 1943 he was commissioned Second Lieutenant by the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He served as a tank commander and was wound