Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Executive Vice President of American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad) and senior Shliach to Washington, DC, met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Michael Herzog, Israel Amb. to the US at the Ambassador’s Residence on Wednesday.
They discussed the work and current developments in Chabad Lubavitch around the world as well as the storied longstanding relationship between the Herzog dynasty and the Rebbe (as well as the Frierdike Rebbe) going back many years to their grandfather Harav Yitzchak Halevi Herzog, Israel’s first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi and father of Hon. Chaim Herzog, the Ambassador of Israel to the UN who then became President of Israel (and who was the father of today’s President and Ambassador to the US), and who merited to meet the Rebbe and participate in Hakofos during his tenure at the UN in the 1970’s.
