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Wednesday, June 2, 2021
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Herzog and Peretz exchange warm words, hugs before presidential votes
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleRaoul Wootliff is a former Times of Israel political correspondent and Daily Briefing podcast producer.
Presidential candidates Isaac Herzog and Miriam Peretz embrace before the vote, June 2, 2021. (Tal Schneider/Times of Israel)
Isaac Herzog and Miriam Peretz have entered the VIP gallery of the Knesset plenum for the vote on Israel’s next president, in which they are the only two candidates.
Before the voting begins, the two can be seen exchanging words and hugging.
Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin meanwhile explains the rules of the voting, in which MKs will cast votes one by one, in alphabetical order, behind a partition to ensure secrecy.
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