{"id":22549,"date":"2015-03-13T17:38:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T23:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=22549"},"modified":"2015-03-13T17:38:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T23:38:58","slug":"peres-endorses-isaac-herzog-as-israels-next-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/peres-endorses-isaac-herzog-as-israels-next-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Peres endorses Isaac Herzog as Israel&#8217;s next PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) &#8212; Israel&#8217;s former President Shimon Peres endorsed the Zionist Union&#8217;s Isaac Herzog as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Israeli democracy is approaching the day of choice. It is natural that people will have differing opinions and that they will vote according to their conscience,&#8221; Peres, who also served as the country&#8217;s prime minister, said in a statement issued Thursday. &#8220;As for me, I support Issac Herzog to be prime minister.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Herzog, chairman of the Labor Party, which Peres once headed, teamed on an election list with former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and her center-left Hatnuah party. The two party leaders would rotate the prime ministership if their union is chosen to form a new government.<\/p>\n<p>The Zionist Union is the front-runner in polling, by three to four seats, ahead of the March 17 national election.<\/p>\n<p>Peres in his statement called Herzog, whose father, Chaim, was Israel&#8217;s sixth president, a \u201clevel-headed leader who is reliable, and full of responsibility and dedication to the Israeli public.\u201d He did not mention Livni.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Peres%20endorses%20Isaac%20Herzog%20as%20Israel%27s%20next%20PM\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1794],"tags":[6527,8790,8795,8788,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22550,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22549\/revisions\/22550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}