{"id":4727,"date":"2014-06-20T00:03:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T07:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=4727"},"modified":"2014-06-18T11:30:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T18:30:28","slug":"rivlin-israels-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2014\/06\/20\/rivlin-israels-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivlin: Israel\u2019s new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reuven Rivlin votes in the presidential election in the Knesset. <em>(photo by Ashernet)<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On June 10, Israel\u2019s 120-seat parliament chose longtime Likud member Reuven Rivlin as the country\u2019s next president. He will succeed Shimon Peres, who retires next month at the age of 90.<\/p>\n<p>Rivlin, who served two terms as speaker of the Knesset, has been a member of parliament for almost 20 years. He won on the second round of voting, beating out rival Knesset member Meir Sheetrit in that round. He said that he will serve the entire public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis [Likud] party was my home as I said it would be until I was legally obligated to leave it. Now, I am no longer a party man, I am no longer a faction man. I am everybody\u2019s man. A man of the people,\u201d Rivlin told the Knesset.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/themedialine.org\/news\/news_detail.asp?NewsID=40176\" target=\"_blank\">themedialine.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuven Rivlin votes in the presidential election in the Knesset. (photo by Ashernet) On June 10, Israel\u2019s 120-seat parliament chose longtime Likud member Reuven Rivlin as the country\u2019s next president. He will succeed Shimon Peres, who retires next month at the age of 90. Rivlin, who served two terms as speaker of the Knesset, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4329],"tags":[1321,311],"class_list":["post-4727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-reuven-rivlin","tag-shimon-peres"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}