David Horovitz is the founding editor of The Times of Israel. He is the author of "Still Life with Bombers" (2004) and "A Little Too Close to God" (2000), and co-author of "Shalom Friend: The Life and ...

Yitzhak Herzog has been Israel’s president for more than four years but is now facing a decision that will shape the legacy of his entire term: how to respond to prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s ...

Justice Secretary David Lammy is facing criticism over a Department for Justice decision to spend millions of pounds on a video system that never worked. Lammy's department is said to have wasted ...

A proposal to rename Dublin’s Herzog Park to show solidarity with Palestine has sparked accusations that it is an attempt to erase part of Ireland's Jewish history. The park is named after Chaim ...

The Chief Executive of Dublin City Council has apologised for what he said was an administrative oversight leading to the expected withdrawal of two proposals to rename Dublin parks, due to be voted ...

Who was Chaim Herzog and why is a park in Dublin named after him? Chaim Herzog was Israel’s president from 1983 to 1993. Born in Belfast in 1918, Herzog spent his childhood in Dublin when his father ...

A proposal to rename a Dublin park which is named after a former president of Israel has been removed from the Dublin City Council's agenda. Herzog Park, in Rathgar, was named after Belfast-born and ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has submitted an official pardon request to President Isaac Herzog, the president’s office confirmed on Sunday. Mr Herzog’s office acknowledged the ...

Jerusalem Post / Israel News / Israel Politics PM Netanyahu submits 'extraordinary' pardon request to President Herzog amid criminal trial Officials stressed that President Isaac Herzog will consider ...

Herzog’s office has said that, in line with standard procedure, the request has been transferred to the Justice Ministry’s Pardons Department, which will collect opinions from relevant officials ...

Tanaiste Simon Harris said he is ‘completely opposed’ to a proposal to remove the name of a former president of Israel from a park in Dublin (Brian Lawless/PA) (PA Wire) Ireland’s deputy premier Simon ...

The Irish government has sharply criticized a proposal from a Dublin City Council committee to remove the name of former Israeli president Chaim Herzog from a south Dublin park, a move that has ...