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Michael B. Oren

FORMER ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES

Michael B. Oren served as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. He currently holds the Abba Eban Chair in International Diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, and is Ambassador-in-Residence at the Atlantic Council.

Educated at Princeton and Columbia, Ambassador Oren has been a visiting professor at Yale, Harvard and Georgetown, and was a Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. An expert in Middle East History, Ambassador Oren’s last two books, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East from 1776 to the Present and Six Days of War, were New York Times bestsellers.

Born in the United States, Ambassador Oren made aliyah and enlisted as a paratrooper in the Israel Defense Forces, seeing action in the Lebanon War. As an officer, Ambassador Oren served as a liaison to the U.S. Sixth Fleet during the Gulf War and an IDF Spokesman during the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead.

Ambassador Oren and his wife, Sally, have three children.

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