Aura Herzog, mother of Israeli president, dies at 97

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Aura Herzog, mother of Israeli president Isaac Herzog and wife of the country’s sixth President Chaim Herzog, died on Monday. She was 97.

Herzog was a well-known public figure and activist. She founded in 1969 the Council for a Beautiful Israel – a non-profit organization focused on improving the quality of life in Israel, and establishing Yad Chaim Herzog, a foundation in memory of her late husband.

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The President’s Office said she died peacefully at her home and will be buried alongside her husband in the Great Leaders of the Nation plot on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

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Herzog was born in Egypt after her father had been deported from Ottoman Palestine by Turkish authorities during World War I. Her father was a top engineer for the Suez Canal, and her sister, Suzie, was the wife of Foreign Minister Abba Eban.

Aura immigrated to British Mandatory Palestine in 1946 and joined the Haganah, the pre-independence army of Palestine’s Jews. She married Chaim Herzog in 1947.

In his eulogy for Herzog, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that “Aura was a public figure and activist who loved her people and her country.”