Avi Ohayon · CC BY-SA 3.0

Elected president of Israel in 2021, the first president born in Israel after its declaration of independence and the son of a previous president, Chaim Herzog. A lawyer who served as government secretary and later chaired the Labor Party, leading the opposition in the Knesset from 2013 to 2018 before rising to the country's largely ceremonial but symbolically weighty head-of-state role.