"Ultimate Allies: America and Israel, 1620 to the Present"

Statesman, historian, and parliamentarian, Ambassador Michael Oren has devoted his life to serving Israel and the Jewish people around the world.

For nearly five years, he served as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States. He was instrumental in obtaining US defense aid, especially for the Iron Dome system, and American loan guarantees for Israel’s economy. He built bridges with diverse communities across the nation, wrote dozens of op-eds and conducted hundreds of media interviews, fortifying the U.S.-Israel alliance.  

More recently, as a Member of the Israel’s parliament (Knesset) and Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, he continued to interact with foreign leaders and to defend Israel in the media. He spearheaded efforts to strengthen Israel-Diaspora relations, to develop the Golan Heights, and to fight BDS. As Chairman of a classified subcommittee, he dealt with some of Israel’s most sensitive security issues.

A graduate of Princeton and Columbia, Dr. Oren has served as a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown.  His last three books—Six Days of War; Power, Faith, and Fantasy; and Ally: My Journal Across the American-Israel Divide—were all New York Times bestsellers. He received the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year Award, a National Humanities prize, and the Jewish Book Award.

Frequently interviewed by the U.S. and international press, he has had appeared on the Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher shows, 60 Minutes, and The View. He was the Middle East analyst for CBS and CNN. Michael Oren was named by Politico as one of the fifty most influential thinkers in America.

Sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Forum and the Department of Political Science