“Long Live the President”

This Week Unpacked

English - July 20, 2021 10:30 - 15 minutes - ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
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Former Labor party leader and Jewish Agency head Isaac Herzog was sworn in as Israel’s 11th president in an elaborate ceremony at the Knesset. We unpack Herzog’s background as a member of a prominent Israeli family and the role of the Israeli president.

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Sources

https://danielgordis.substack.com/p/they-sounded-the-horn-and-all-the
https://www.timesofisrael.com/herzog-takes-office-as-israels-11th-president-warns-of-dangers-of-polarization/
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/isaac-herzog-taps-eyal-shviki-as-director-general-of-presidents-residence-672283
https://unpacked.education/video/un-resolution-3379-is-zionism-racism/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn8JAXUf97E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci5zZi5Zpb0
https://www.haaretz.com/the-most-radical-speech-an-israeli-president-ever-made-1.5370638
https://tlv1.fm/promised-podcast/2021/07/08/the-put-a-sock-in-it-edition/
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/reuven-rivlin-a-stable-president-for-unstable-times-editorial-673061
http://online.knesset.gov.il/media/yeshiva/97590/2021_07_07_16_29_50_16_29_50_0_97590.mp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn8JAXUf97E
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1cpT6oFzWpC1PYh5ipRlIO?si=ObR47K9lTVG7DoSlV_R2vQ&dl_branch=1

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