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The probe into alleged corruption by opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog may turn into a criminal investigation, a senior official involved in the probe told Channel 10 News on Monday. Last week it was cleared for publication that Herzog is under investigation on suspicions of accepting illegal donations while running for the leadership of the Labor party in 2013. According to the official who spoke to Channel 10, the police are expected to announce that the probe is a criminal investigation following testimonies that were collected in recent days. Herzog, for his part, said earlier on Monday that the allegations...

Isaac Herzog has maintained a lead in opinion polls but winning the election is not enough to become prime minister When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chose to dissolve his government last November and call for new elections he didn’t expect a formidable challenge from the Labor party leader Isaac Herzog. Herzog is the closest thing Israel has to a patrician politician. His father, Chaim Herzog, was an Israeli army general and the sixth president of Israel and his grandfather was the first chief rabbi of Ireland. And while the 54-year-old Isaac Herzog has served four times as a government...

A plaque marking the 1918 birthplace of former Israeli President Chaim Herzog in Belfast was removed earlier this week, out of fears of further anti-Semitic violence in the Northern Ireland city. The blue plaque honoring Herzog, who was President of Israel from 1983 to 1993, was first erected on a property at Cliftonpark Avenue in 1998. The 16-year landmark was torn down, however, due to concern for Jews living in the area. Democratic Unionist Party Councillor Brian Kingston explained the decision to the Belfast Telegraph. "Attacks have included the scrawling of anti-Israeli graffiti on the building and items being thrown...

Zionism is Not RacismBy Chaim HerzogFrontPageMagazine.com | April 18, 2003 The late Chaim Herzog, former president of Israel and Israeli Ambassador to the UN, gave this stirring defense of his country on the floor of the United Nations on November 10, 1975.  The address was made in response to UN Resolution 3379, declaring that Zionism is racism.1 Today the far Left, UN functionaries, Euro-socialists and Islamo-fascists continue to maintain that Israel is a racist entity, which will undoubtedly be reflected in the "peace negotiations" they broker with the Palestinian Authority.  The truths expressed in this speech continue to serve as a lasting rejoinder...