President Herzog Arrives in Romania to Begin State Visit

On June 28, 2026, President Isaac Herzog and the First Lady Michal Herzog landed in the city of Iași, Romania, to begin their state visit to the country. Upon his arrival, the President was received in an official welcome ceremony held at the airport.
 

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On June 28, 2026, President Isaac Herzog and the First Lady Michal Herzog landed in the city of Iași, Romania, to begin their state visit to the country. Upon his arrival, the President was received in an official welcome ceremony held at the airport.

Later today, President Herzog will take part in a state ceremony marking 85 years since the Iași pogrom, one of the worst massacres of Romanian Jewry during the Holocaust, in which thousands of Jews were murdered. The ceremony will be held at the city’s Jewish cemetery, where many of the pogrom’s victims lie in a mass grave.

President Herzog will then take part in a reburial ceremony for 22 victims of the pogrom whose remains were recently identified, after which he will visit the Holocaust museum and additional memorial sites in the city.



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