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Chaim Herzog

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Chaim Herzog


Born
in Belfast, Co. Antrim/Co. Down, Ireland, The United Kingdom
September 17, 1918

Died
April 17, 1997

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Major-General Chaim Herzog was an Israeli military officer, attorney, politician and writer who served as the sixth President of Israel between 1983 and 1993.

He was born in Belfast and raised predominantly in Dublin, where his father, Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, served as Ireland's Chief Rabbi. In 1935 he emigrated to Mandatory Palestine, then served in the Haganah during the 1936–39 Arab revolt. He volunteered for service in the British Army during World War II, and was commissioned as an officer of the Intelligence Corps in 1943. He left the British Army in 1947 as a major, and returned to Palestine. After the end of the British Mandate and Israel's Declaration of Independence, he served as an officer of the Israel Defence Forces during the 1
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“Any nation aspiring to establish an independent national state on the Palestinian land-bridge had thus to accept a primary fact of life: it was destined to live under nearly constant concentric pressure from near and far, and only constant military preparedness could guarantee its survival. It is probably no coincidence that the only people to create a national commonwealth on the Palestinian land-bridge that lasted (with only short interruptions) for an appreciable period (twelve centuries from the twelfth century bc onwards) is the Jewish people. During this long period, the Jews were more”
Chaim Herzog, Battles of the Bible: A military history of ancient Israel

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