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The President of the State of Israel (, Nesi HaMedina, lit. President of the State) is the Head of state of Israel. The position is largely a ceremonial Figurehead (metaphor) role, with executive real power lying in the hands of the Prime Minister of Israel. The current president is Shimon Peres.
Election The President is elected by an absolute majority in the Knesset (the Israeli parliament). If, by the third round of voting, no candidate receives an absolute majority, a simple majority is all that is required. A president's full term is seven years. A president cannot be re-elected to a second term. Until recently, the president was elected for a five-year term, and was allowed to serve up to two terms in office. In 2000, the president's term was increased to seven years.
Any Israeli citizen who is a resident of the State is eligible to be a presidential candidate. The office falls vacant upon resignation or upon the decision of three-quarters of the Knesset to remove the president on grounds of misconduct or incapacity. Presidential tenure is not keyed to that of the Knesset in order to assure continuity in government and the nonpartisan character of the office. There is no vice president in the Israeli governmental system. When the president is temporarily incapacitated or the office falls vacant, the speaker (politics) of the Knesset may become Acting (law) president.
For more information see Basic Law: The President of the State.
Presidential powers and roles The president's powers are rather limited in scope compared to heads of state in other countries. The president:
- Signs every law (except those that pertain to the president's powers).
- Chooses a member of the Knesset to form the government in consultation with the parties making up the body.
- Confirms diplomats and receives foreign diplomats.
- Signs treaties, approved by the Knesset, with foreign countries.
- Appoints judges to the Supreme Court of Israel (upon advice of the Judicial Appointments Committee).
- Appoints the governor of the Bank of Israel and other bureaucrats (upon advice of the Prime Minister).
- Furthermore, the president has the authority to pardon criminals and commute sentences.
Presidential powers are usually exercised based on the recommendation of appropriate government ministers.
Although the president's role is non-political, Israeli heads of state perform important Morality, ceremonial, and educational functions. Israeli Presidents also play a part in the formation of the cabinet, or government. They are required to consult leaders of all political parties in the Knesset and to designate a member of the legislature to organize a cabinet. If the member so appointed fails, other political parties commanding a plurality in the Knesset may submit their own nominee. The figure called upon to form a cabinet is invariably the leader of the most influential political party or bloc in the Knesset.
Backgrounds Most of the Presidents of Israel were involved in national politics or Zionist activities before their elevation. Some, however, were also distinguished in other fields, including Chaim Weizmann, a leading research chemist who founded the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, Zalman Shazar, who was an author, poet, and journalist, and Chaim Herzog, who had been a military leader, attorney, and diplomat.
The first several Presidents of Israel were all born in Russia, reflecting the leadership of the State in its early days. The first President who was actually born in the land that was to become Israel, as well as the first with a Sephardic Jews background, was Yitzhak Navon. The first President with a Western European background was Chaim Herzog, who originally came from Northern Ireland. The first President from a Middle East country outside the Land of Israel was Moshe Katsav, who was born in Iran.
Political History All Israeli presidents from Yitzhak Ben-Zvi to Ezer Weizman were members of, or associated with, the Labor (Israel) and its predecessors, and all have been considered politically moderate. Moshe Katsav was the first Likud president. These tendencies were especially significant in the April 1978 election of Labour's Yitzhak Navon, following the inability of the governing Likud coalition to elect its candidate to the presidency. Israeli observers believed that, in counterbalance to Prime Minister Menahem Begin's polarizing leadership, Navon, the country's first president of Sephardi origin, provided Israel with unifying symbolic leadership at a time of great political controversy and upheaval. In 1983 Navon decided to re-enter Labour politics after five years of nonpartisan service as president, and Haim Herzog (previously head of military intelligence and Israel Ambassador to the United Nations) succeeded him as Israel's sixth president. Likud's Moshe Katsav's victory over Labour's Shimon Peres in 2000 (by secret ballot) was an upset.
Albert Einstein, a Jew but not an Israeli citizen, was offered the presidency in 1952 but turned it down. Ehud Olmert was reported to be considering offering the presidency to another non-Israeli Elie Wiesel, but he was said to be "very not interested". Olmert backs Peres as next president Jerusalem Post, 18 October 2006
List of Presidents of the State of Israel {|class="wikitable"|-! #!! Name! Term start! Term end! Political Party
(at time of appointment)|-|1| |Chaim Weizmann ] 1948 ] 1952 ] || 8 December 1952 ] 1963 ]|-|3| |Zalman Shazar ] 1963 ] 1973 ]|-|4| |Ephraim Katzir ] 1973 ] 1978 ]|-|5| |Yitzhak Navon ] 1978 ] 1983 ]|-|6| |Chaim Herzog ] 1983 ] 1993 ]|-|7| |Ezer Weizman ] 1993 ] 2000 ]|-|8| |Moshe Katsav ] 2000 ] 2007 ]|-|9| |Shimon Peres ] 2007 ]|-|}
Past elections See also
- List of Israelis
References
External link
- Official site of the President of Israel