ريفين ريفلين فاز رئيسا عاشرا لإسرائيل ب 63 صوتا في الكنيست ضد مائير شتريت
Reuven Rivlin is elected Israel's 10th president
Rivlin to be ceremoniously sworn in on July 24, 2014. Defeated Meir Sheetrit in the runoff.
MK Reuven Rivlin (Likud) was elected Israel's 10th president on Tuesday, receiving the support of 63 Knesset members in a runoff vote against MK Meir Sheetrit (Hatnuah).
Rivlin will be ceremoniously sworn in as first citizen of Israel on July 24, 2014, replacing outgoing President Shimon Peres.
He told Channel 2 the first thing he will do as president is thank all his "true friends." Asked if he is angry at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who did not support his candidacy, Rivlin said he is not angry at anyone.
Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Rivlin is married and has four children. A lawyer by training, he served as director and chairman of the Beitar Jerusalem Sports Association, as a member of the Jerusalem city council for a decade and as chairman of the Institute for Occupational Safety and Hygiene. He also served as Minister of Communications in the Sharon government at the start of the previous decade.
"I have earned your trust as Speaker of this house, as one responsible for overseeing the proper and fair swinging of the pendulum of debate," Rivlin wrote the MKs during his campaign, "Now I wish to make the President's Residence a house of partnership, dialogue and understanding."
Rivlin received 63 of 116 valid votes in the runoff, while Sheetrit received 53. In the first round, of the 119 ballots cast (MK Meir Porush was overseas), Rivlin got the most votes, 44, followed by Sheetrit with 31. Former MK Dalia Itzik (Kadima) came close behind with 28 votes, followed by former Supreme Court Justice Dalia Dorner, 13, and Nobel laureate Dan Shechtman, 1. Two votes were disqualified.
Sheetrit congratulated the president-elect, saying he is a worthy candidate and wished him success. He said he thinks some of those who supported him in the first found voted for Rivlin in the run off.
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