Isaac Herzog

Yitzhak Herzog ( born September 22, 1960 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli lawyer, politician, and since 2013 chairman of the party of the Avodah.

Life

Yitzhak Herzog, was born in 1960 as son of Chaim Herzog, who later became President of Israel. His grandfather was Isaac Halevy Herzog, the first Irish Grand Rabbi and later Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Palestine and Israel.

Yitzhak Herzog studied law at Tel Aviv University, and Cornell University. He is married and has three children. Duke lives in Tel Aviv.

Policy

Duke was already working under the government of Ehud Barak (1999-2001) as a Cabinet secretary. From 2000 to 2003 he headed the Israeli Anti- Drug Authority. In the Israeli parliamentary elections in 2003, he won a seat for the Labour Party ( Avoda ). He launched several legislative initiatives. When in 2005 the Labour Party entered into a coalition with Ariel Sharon 's Likud, became duke Minister of Housing and Construction. However, he joined the end of November with resignation of the Labour Party from the coalition back. In the parliamentary elections of 2006 Duke took again a mandate and was Ehud Olmert first Minister of Tourism, 2007, however, following the entry of Jisra'el Beiteinu in the government, he took on the leadership of the Ministry of Social Welfare and also was appointed Minister of Diaspora Affairs and the fight against anti-Semitism appointed. In this role, he sharply criticized the new plans for the beatification of Pope Pius XII. In the elections to the Knesset in 2009, Duke held the second list place after the party leader Barak making it once deputy.

In the 32th government of Benjamin Netanyahu, who belonged to the Labour Party as a coalition partner, Duke again took the office of the Minister of Social Affairs. In spite of his ministers, he performed several times criticism of the policies of the government and finally declared after the break Ehud Barak with the Labor Party 17 January 2011 his resignation. In November 2013 he was elected party chairman.