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Chaim Herzog

Members of the Dublin City Council sit in the council chambers during the December 1, 2025, meeting in which the proposal to rename Herzog Park was sent back to the naming committee. (Screenshot from webcast via JTA)
December 2, 2025, 11:45 pm
Dublin city councilors accuse ‘Zionist lobby’ of quashing proposal to rename Herzog Park
While the City Council voted Monday to table the measure for now, Irish Jews express concern over ‘palpable hatred’ voiced during the debate
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Protestors gather in front of the Israeli Embassy in Dublin to protest Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, on May 14, 2024. (Stringer/Anadolu)
December 1, 2025, 2:34 am
Dublin halts plans to rename city’s Herzog Park after accusations of antisemitism
Council chief refers matter back to committee, after proposal called out by Irish PM, drew charges of antisemitism from Israel and local Jewish community
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Then-president Chaim Herzog attends a ceremony at the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp in Germany on April 6, 1987. (Nati Harnik/GPO)
November 30, 2025, 12:39 am
Irish government slams Dublin plan to remove name of Chaim Herzog from city park
Foreign minister says move ‘has no place in our inclusive republic’; country’s chief rabbi says renaming park would ‘send a painful message of isolation to our small community’
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Zev Stub
Then-Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Chaim Herzog addresses the UN General Assembly on November 10, 1975, at the vote to label Zionism as 'racism,' at the United Nations, New York. (UN Photo/Michos Tzovaras)
November 29, 2025, 2:49 pm
Dublin City Council to vote on renaming Herzog Park after anti-Israel campaign
Irish Jewish activist blasts ‘blatant attempt to erase Irish-Jewish history’; office of his son, current Israeli president, says move ‘would be a regrettable and shameful act’
By ToI Staff
July 20, 2023, 1:18 pm
Daily Briefing July 20: Pres. Herzog to US Congress: ‘Let’s elevate our partnership’
US bureau chief Jacob Magid and diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discuss the Israeli president’s address to a joint session, meeting with US President Joe Biden, and reactions
By ToI Staff
US President Joe Biden (R) embraces President Isaac Herzog (L) during the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on July 14, 2022. (RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)
July 15, 2022, 6:25 pm
Sinn Féin, Gaelic and boxing: Biden and Herzog connect over Irish heritage
In warm visit, presidents reference joint ancestral ties in public speeches and private meeting
By Lazar Berman
People carry the coffin of Aura Herzog, wife of late president Chaim Herzog, and mother of current President Isaac Herzog, during her funeral at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on January 12, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 12, 2022, 9:23 pm
Leaders of US, PA, UAE and Bahrain offer condolences to Herzog over mother’s death
Putin, Erdogan, Jordan’s Abdullah, Egypt’s Sissi, Spanish king, presidents of Singapore, Georgia and Greece also among the many reaching out to mourning Israeli president
By ToI Staff
President Isaac Herzog attends the funeral of his mother, Aura Herzog, at Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem, January 12, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
January 12, 2022, 4:23 pm
‘A pioneer’: Aura Herzog, wife of one president, mother of a second, laid to rest
In eulogy, Isaac Herzog says his mother’s great loves were her family, Israel and ‘good taste, aesthetics… and understanding the big wide world’
By ToI Staff
File: President Chaim Herzog and his wife Aura during a visit to Toledo, Spain, in 1992 (Sa'ar Ya'acov)
January 10, 2022, 9:26 am
Aura Herzog, wife to one Israeli president and mother to a second, dies at 97
Politicians laud ‘pioneering’ woman who devoted herself to public service; she took part in Israel’s War of Independence and was a social and environmental activist
By ToI Staff
Israel envoy to the United Nations rips up a Human Rights Council report at the podium, October 29, 2021 (Screen grab)
October 30, 2021, 12:07 pm
‘Obsessive anti-Israel bias’: Erdan rips up human rights report at UN podium
Envoy says report by UNHRC belongs in ‘the dustbin of antisemitism,’ notes Israel has been targeted in 95 resolutions compared to 142 against all other countries combined
By ToI Staff
Chaim Herzog takes the presidential oath of office at the Knesset, 5 May, 1983 (HERMAN CHANANIA/GPO)
July 8, 2021, 1:19 pm
Herzog given virtual NFT copy of dad’s presidential oath of office
Knesset presents encrypted digital image of his father to ‘visibly moved’ new president
By AP
Chairman of The Jewish Agency Isaac Herzog, center, meeting with children who immigrated to Israel during the coronavirus pandemic, December 28, 2020. (David Salem/The Jewish Agency for Israel)
December 28, 2020, 10:53 pm
Pandemic withers immigration by nearly 40%
Jewish Agency says about 20,000 olim will have arrived by year’s end, over half from former Soviet Union countries; last year, 33,247 came
By Stuart Winer
Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman, Jerusalem 2009. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
January 1, 2017, 9:30 pm
Former justice minister Yaakov Neeman dies at 77
Lawyer and politician who served under Netanyahu remembered as expert jurist who could find compromise, Torah scholar
By ToI Staff
Then-Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Chaim Herzog addresses the UN General Assembly on November 10, 1975, at the vote to label Zionism as 'racism,' at the United Nations, New York. (UN Photo/Michos Tzovaras)
February 9, 2016, 3:09 pm
1975 anti-Semitism speech to UN even more relevant today, UK historian says
40 years after UN’s infamous anti-Israel resolution, new efforts to delegitimize Israel show ‘secret, hidden anti-Semitism growing,’ warns Simon Sebag Montefiore
By Toby Greene
Screenshot from a video showing extremist Israeli Jewish wedding-goers celebrating the killing of the Dawabsha family. (screen capture: Channel 10)
December 23, 2015, 10:07 pm
Clip shows far-right wedding-goers celebrating Duma killings
Israeli youngsters, said to be friends of detainees in deadly firebombing, stab photo of 18-month-old victim; wave firebombs, rifles and knives at Jerusalem event
By ToI Staff
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