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President Isaac Herzog plans to attend Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration

By Rossella Tercatin 13 May 2025, 5:08 pm Edit

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter.

President Isaac Herzog meets with Mike Huckabee (unseen) at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 21, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
President Isaac Herzog meets with Mike Huckabee (unseen) at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 21, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

President Isaac Herzog plans to attend Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration, his spokesperson confirms to The Times of Israel. The ceremony is set to take place in Rome on May 18.

At Pope Francis’s funeral last month, Israel was represented only by its Ambassador to the Holy See Yaron Sideman, a choice seen by many as a sign of the tensions between Jerusalem and the Vatican in the shadow of the latter’s criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza during the war sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught.

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