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Chaim Herzog

1918 - 1997

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Chaim Herzog (Hebrew: חיים הרצוג‎; 17 September 1918 – 17 April 1997) was an Israeli politician, military officer, lawyer and author who served as the sixth president of Israel between 1983 and 1993. Born in Belfast and raised primarily in Dublin, the son of Ireland's Chief Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, he immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1935 and served in the Haganah Jewish paramilitary group during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt. He returned to Palestine after the war and, following the end of the British Mandate and Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948, fought in the Battles of Latrun during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chaim Herzog has received more than 891,129 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Chaim Herzog is the 16th most popular diplomat (up from 21st in 2019), the 345th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 537th in 2019) and the most popular British Diplomat.

Chaim Herzog was the sixth president of Israel, and the first to be born in the country. He was also the first Israeli ambassador to the United Nations. Herzog is best known for his memoirs, which he published in 1972.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Chaim Herzog ranks 16 out of 90. Before him are Ferdinand de Lesseps, Raoul Wallenberg, Lucien Bonaparte, Madeleine Albright, Folke Bernadotte, and John R. Bolton. After him are Mohamed ElBaradei, Alva Myrdal, Antony Blinken, Hasekura Tsunenaga, George F. Kennan, and Chiune Sugihara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Chaim Herzog ranks 19. Before him are Helmut Schmidt, Ken Miles, Gertrude B. Elion, Alberto Ascari, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and Frederick Sanger. After him are Katherine Johnson, William Holden, Martin Ryle, Jørn Utzon, Kai Siegbahn, and Billy Graham. Among people deceased in 1997, Chaim Herzog ranks 18. Before him are Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, Paulo Freire, Melvin Calvin, The Notorious B.I.G., Roy Lichtenstein, and Bohumil Hrabal. After him are Sviatoslav Richter, Hans Eysenck, William S. Burroughs, Fred Zinnemann, Isaiah Berlin, and Allen Ginsberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Chaim Herzog ranks 345 out of 8,785. Before him are Ian McShane (1942), William Baffin (1584), Benjamin Britten (1913), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), David Beckham (1975), and Malcolm McDowell (1943). After him are Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), William Henry Bragg (1862), G. K. Chesterton (1874), Angela Lansbury (1925), Christopher Marlowe (1564), and Alan Bates (1934).

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Among DIPLOMATS In United Kingdom

Among diplomats born in United Kingdom, Chaim Herzog ranks 1. After him are Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784), Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1864), Ernest Mason Satow (1843), and Seán Lester (1888).

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