Herzog, the mother of President Herzog and wife of late President Chaim Herzog, is remembered for a life of public service and activism.

Former President of Israel, Chaim Herzog, showed the UN in 1975 that Israel will never succumb to the hateful anti-Semitism so often expressed there.

Although 40 years have passed since the notorious UN resolution, Israel still faces the same bias and the "trend of UN hostility towards Israel continues to this day,” as Netanyahu said.

On Wednesday, the Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN, together with the Yad Chaim Herzog Association and American Jewish Congress, held a special event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of UN resolution 3379.

At a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the adoption of a U.N. resolution equating Zionism with racism, US Secretary of State John Kerry urged the world to condemn rising anti-Semitism and bigotry and unite in the struggle against violent extremism and "terrorist bigots."

On November 10, 1975, the United Nations passed Resolution 3379, which defines Zionism as a form of racism and racial discrimination.