of Education and Culture and was a member of the Council for Arts and Culture. In 1969, she founded the Council for a Beautiful Israel, a leading environmental protection NGO and chaired it for 38 years, after which she became its international president. After the end of her husband's presidency and her own tenure as first lady, she held various positions: Chairperson of the Public Committee for the celebration of Israel's Jubilee celebration (1998), Member of the Public Advisory Board of Mifal Hapayis (Israel's national lottery), Member of the Board of Governors of the Tel Aviv Museum, and Chairperson of Friends of Schneider association at Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel. Later life Aura Herzog died on 10 January 2022, at the age of 97. She is buried alongside her husband and a number of other Israeli leaders in Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl national cemetery. In his eulogy, her son President Isaac Herzog paid tribute to her as “an extremely loving mother for all of us, a source of strength, an engine with incredible energies.” Published works In 1971, she published "Secrets of Hospitality," a manual on hospitality, manners and customs. References 1924 births 2022 deaths People from Ismailia Egyptian Ashkenazi Jews Egyptian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Israeli Ashkenazi Jews Israeli non-fiction writers Israeli people of Egyptian-Jewish descent Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent Israeli people of Russian-Jewish descent Spouses of presidents of Israel Aura Herzog University of the Witwatersrand alumni Egyptian expatriates in South Africa Israeli expatriates in the United States Burials at Mount Herzl Israeli environmentalists Israeli women activists Israeli women non-fiction writers Jewish women writers