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Herzog accepts offer to be next chairman of Jewish Agency
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleMK Isaac Herzog says he accepts the request by the Jewish Agency’s nominating committee to be the organization’s next chairman, an invitation that must still be approved by the organization’s board of governors in a Sunday vote.
“After receiving a call for the leaders of Diaspora Jewry, I decided to accept the position of Jewish Agency chairman. These are days of significant challenges for the relationship between the Jewish people [in the Diaspora] and the State of Israel,” Herzog says in a statement.
“I will start the job on August 1,” he adds. He will have to resign his Knesset seat before entering the position.
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