Herzog served as the 6th President of Israel from 1983 to 1993.

• He served in the Haganah paramilitary group during the 1936-1939 Arab revolt, and in the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Herzog retired from the IDF in 1962.

• After leaving the IDF, Herzog practiced law.

• From 1975 to 1978, he served as Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, a position in which he denounced, and symbolically ripped apart, UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 - also known as the "Zionism is Racism" resolution.