Yaakov Herzog
Politician
Irish-born Israeli diplomat associated with the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as the director-general of the Prime Minister of Israel's office from 1965 to 1972.
He studied law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, London University, and McGill University.
He worked as an Israeli minister at the Washington, D.C. embassy in the early 1960s and became a close friend of then-American President, John F. Kennedy.
He was the son of a high-ranking Israeli Rabbi and the brother of Chaim Herzog, who served as Israel's sixth President.
He served as an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, in 1956 and 1957.