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Several organizations, including ones representing Australia's Jewry, called to cancel the visit, as protests against President Isaac Herzog are planned nationwide. The progressive Jewish Council of Australia called him a 'head of a state found to be committing a genocide against Palestinians'

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is facing growing pressure to cancel next week's planned visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, amid protests planned in major cities and a formal complaint accusing Herzog of complicity in alleged war crimes and calling for his detention.