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2021-11-26T15:35:34.856Z


Since being elected, Herzog has made a special effort to be everyone's president: gestures from right and left, close ties with both Bennett and Netanyahu, and the warm relations with the ultra-Orthodox that have become more relevant than ever. He has another long term ahead of him, but even now there are those who estimate that after the President's House - the target will be the Prime Minister's Office.


On Tuesday evening, while President Yitzhak Herzog was on an El Al flight on his way back from London to Israel, Chelsea hosted Juventus for a crucial Champions League game.

The president opened his visit to Britain at the same stadium, at a prestigious event in memory of Jewish athletes murdered in the Holocaust, alongside Chelsea owner Billionaire Roman Abramovich;

He received as a gift a blue shirt of the group, on which his name was stamped in white with the number 1.

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Herzog receives a shirt from the Chelsea Football Club (Photo: Official Website, Kobi Gideon, GPO)

Two days later, just before taking off back to the country, he met by chance the Juventus players, who happened to be in the same hotel.

He also received a white shirt, with the name of team player Paolo Dybala, and his number, 10. A few hours later, on the pitch, Chelsea defeated them 4-0 on the pitch, but on the plane, in the president's suitcase, there was a perfect balance - With both shirts of both teams.

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Herzog, the president who was elected by the largest majority in the Knesset in the history of the state, is a big supporter of the two-shirt system, both. Since being elected to office last July, he has made a great effort to prove he is everyone's president, even if it upsets the camp he comes from. This coming Sunday, he will launch his first presidential Hanukkah season by lighting candles in the Cave of the Patriarchs and a first visit to Hebron. "It is sad that the president is putting the settlements at the top of his joy," they attacked in March, angry at the respect he is doing to the settlers. The day before the start of the school year, he came to visit with his wife Michal Har Bracha in Samaria - in peace now they said he "embraces the extremists on the hills", and Gideon Levy called him "the president of the apartheid state". Not to mention the decision to appoint Netanyahu's former spokesman as his adviser, which sparked a crusade by the Balfourist base.



On the other hand, he also made gestures to the left, such as the appointment of former MK Dov Hanin to lead a presidential climate forum and Prof. David Harel, who previously supported the boycott of Ariel University, to head the National Academy of Sciences, to the displeasure of right-wing MKs "If you will," he spoke at the Haaretz conference and was the strongest voice condemning MK Moshe Gafni, who called the prime minister a "traitor." And nationalist sentiments surrounding a bill on the subject.

President of both.

Herzog in Ukraine in June (Photo: Walla !, official website)

In the political arena, too, Herzog occupies a unique role of both: while the prime minister and opposition leader have been on the sidelines for almost six months, and do not hold the monthly update meetings they are supposed to hold by law, Herzog is the most senior figure in constant contact with both Bennett and Netanyahu. . Almost all 120 Knesset members have visited him in person over the past five months, and the most senior - Bennett, Netanyahu, Lapid and Saar - have also been invited to couple dinners with their wives. His long-standing warm relations with ultra-Orthodox politicians have also become more relevant than ever, in the face of the bitter war declared by the Bennett-Lapid government and the reforms of Matan Kahana. At the beginning of the month, when the ultra-Orthodox tried to inflame the protest around the Rosh Chodesh prayer at the Western Wall, the Prime Minister's' Office was assisted by the president. He is the one who addressed MKs Gilad Karib and Alon Tal, who planned to join the women of the Western Wall, and persuaded them to lower the flames.



Herzog is one of the youngest presidents he has ever been, and probably also the most connected, literally: with a respectable and branched network of personal connections all over the country and the world, and quick fingers in WhatsApp, and by and large - his hand in everything, and everything in it.

Despite his young age, his seniority and experience give him the status of a responsible adult, upgraded by the state envelope of the Presidential House.

In the Shimon Peres model, minus 35 years.

A ramified arc of personal connections.

President Herzog (Photo: Walla !, Mark Israel Salem)

Like Peres, he also invests most of his energy in the political arena, and positions himself as a significant player in a crowded arena, with the prime minister, foreign minister, and defense minister. Meanwhile, it is working in rare harmony, as demonstrated last week, in managing the crisis with Turkey. Herzog, Lapid and Bennett worked in full synchronization and complete discretion, and no detail about the release of the Oknin couple was leaked in advance. After 7 years of almost complete stagnation between Prime Minister Netanyahu's office and the house of President Rivlin, Bennett and Herzog are demonstrating a renaissance of coordination and cooperation, and for the time being even without credit battles.



Between Chelsea and Juventus, Herzog's visit to Downing 10 was the most significant international show since taking office.

True, in the summer he met secretly with King Abdullah, but without documentation or photos, there were significant phone conversations with Erdogan and the Chinese president, and last month he visited Ukraine at events marking the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre.

But Britain is a different league, and Boris Johnson is a rockstar, and the heir to the throne Prince Charles as a bonus hosted him for a royal visit.



The British government's decision to declare Hamas' political arm a terrorist organization, two days before the visit, even summoned him to a warm and topical reception, as if invited in advance.

Still, the main issue on the table was Iran;

Ahead of the resumption of nuclear talks with the superpowers, Israel wants to embrace and strengthen the relatively tough stance of Johnson and his government.

Herzog was the first messenger to carry the message.

Next week, Lapid will also arrive in London, and he will also continue to Paris.

For now, at the very least, the dynamics in the political arena is that there is enough for everyone.

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It has not yet been half a year out of a seven-year term, and even now there are those who estimate that in the end, Herzog will aim to reach the Prime Minister's Office himself.

With the connections and winks from right and left, to the Arabs, the ultra-Orthodox, the Likudniks and who does not, he walks the equator of the Israeli public and in the President's House he has a tremendous platform to stand out.

Will he be the first Israeli to be both president and prime minister?

This is a question that will probably accompany him until the end of his term.

Even before that, he had faced significant tests and challenges, the greatest of which might be the political and legal future of Benjamin Netanyahu, in some outline of a deal or pardon backed by the President's House.

In a big blow that has crossed the Israeli public in recent years, a model that will and will not necessarily work.

Source: walla

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