Israel's Former Ambassador to the United States, Current Member of the Knesset and Author of the New Book,
Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Afascinating depiction of the cultural, personal and historical ties that bind Israel and the United States together even as the Israel-Palestinian conflict and the U.S. policiestowards the Iran nuclear program strained that relationship.
Interweaving the story of Oren's personal journey with behind-the-scenes accounts of fateful meetings between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu, high-stakes summitswith the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and diplomatic crises that intensified the controversy surrounding the world's most contested strip of land, Ally is at oncea ringside seat to some of the most significant political summits of our time, a compelling memoir, and a timely testament to an alliance that was and will remain vital forAmericans, Israelis, and the world.
Michael B. Oren is an American-born Israeli historian and author, and was Israel's ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. He has written two New York Timesbestsellers - Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present and Six Days of War: June 1967 and The Making of the Modern MiddleEast. Dr. Oren has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale and Georgetown. The Jerusalem Post listed him as one of the world's ten most influential Jews. He iscurrently a member of the Knesset.
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