Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog was never the Chief Rabbi of Rome. In fact
he was never a rabbi in Rome or in any part of Italy.

He was the Chief Rabbi of Belfast, then of Ireland. On the death of Rav
Kook he became the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of the Palestine Mandate and
the first Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel.

His son Chaim Herzog:
Chaim Herzog (September 17, 1918 - April 17, 1997) served as the sixth
President of Israel (1983 - 1993), following a distinguished career in
both the British Army and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Born in Belfast, Ireland, the son of notable Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi
Herzog, he immigrated to Palestine in 1935, and served in the Jewish
paramilitary group Haganah during the Arab revolt of 1936-38.

He went on to earn a degree in law at University College London and then
qualified as a barrister at Lincoln's Inn. He joined the British army
during World War II, operating primarily in Germany. By the end of the
war, he had become head of intelligence in northern Germany for the
British, and participated in the liberation of several concentration
camps.

Immediately following the war, he returned to Palestine to participate
in the agitation for the formation of a Jewish state. Following the 1947
UN Partition Plan creating the state of Israel, he fought in the 1948
Arab-Israeli War, serving as an officer in the battles for Latrun.

His intelligence experience during World War II was seen as a valuable
asset, and he subsequently became head of the IDF Military Intelligence
Branch, a position in which he served from 1948 to 1950 and again from
1959 to 1962. In the intervening years, he had served as Israeli defence
attache at the Israeli Embassy in the United States (from 1950 to 1954).
By the time he retired from the IDF in 1962, he held the rank of
major-general.

After his retirement, he entered private law practice, but entered
public life again as the 1967 Six-Day War broke out, this time as a
military commentator on news radio. Following the capture of the West
Bank in that war, he did enter official public life again, becoming the
first military governor of the newly-acquired territory.

In 1975 he was appointed Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, in
which capacity he served until 1978. In 1981 he entered politics for the
first time, winning election to the Knesset as a member of the Labour
Party.

In 1983 he was elected as the sixth President of Israel by the Knesset;
he served two five-year terms (then the maximum permitted by Israeli
basic law), retiring from political life in 1993.





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