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Herzog mourns Kissinger as ‘a giant who shaped world politics,’ says he loved Israel
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File: Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger attends a luncheon at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on December 1, 2022. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)
President Isaac Herzog eulogizes former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, who died overnight aged 100, as “one of the greatest diplomats” and “a giant who shaped world politics with his own hands and mind.”
Hailing Kissinger’s part in forging the 1979 peace deal with Egypt, Herzog says Kissinger told him on the latter’s 100th birthday that he has “always loved and supported Israel, and always will.”
Henry Kissinger was one of the greatest diplomats. A Jewish teenager who fled the Nazis and went on to become a giant who shaped world politics with his own hands and mind. The entire family of nations is blessed to this day by the fruits of the historic processes he led,…
— יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) November 30, 2023
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