Founder Michael Oren
Ambassador Michael Oren, Founder
Statesman, historian, soldier, author, Michael Oren has had long and distinguished career.
Born in New York and educated at Princeton and Columbia, he was a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown. He has received fellowships from the US State Department and the British and Canadian governments. He was the Lady Davis Fellow at Hebrew University, a Moshe Dayan Fellow at Tel Aviv University, and the Ambassadorial Scholar at the Atlantic Council. Oren holds four degrees in Middle East history and has received four honorary doctorates.
Moving to Israel in the s and joining the IDF, Dr. Oren served as a lone soldier in the paratroopers. He fought in the Lebanon War, and later served as an army spokesman in the Second Lebanon War and several Gaza operations, reaching the rank of major. He served as an advisor to Israel’s delegation to the UN, to former Foreign Minister Abba Evan, and to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. A passionate oarsman, he won two gold medals in the Maccabiah Games.
In , Michael Oren was appointed Israel’s ambassador to the United States. Interacting with the White
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PERSONAL: Male. Education: Graduate of Columbia University; Princeton University, Ph.D.
ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, MacAdam/Cage Publishing, Sansome St., Suite , San Francisco, CA
CAREER: Historian and writer. Shalem Center, Jerusalem, senior fellow and head of Middle East history project. Director of Israel's Department of InterReligious Affairs under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; representative in Israeli delegation to the United Nations. Military service: Served in Israeli Defense Forces..
AWARDS, HONORS: Lady Davis fellow, Hebrew University; Moshe Dayan fellow, Tel-Aviv University.
WRITINGS:
Origins of the Second Arab-Israel War: Egypt, Israel, and the Great Powers, , F. Cass (Portland, OR),
Sand Devil (three novellas), The Toby Press (New Milford, CT),
Six Days of War: June and the Making of the Modern Middle East,Oxford University Press (New York, NY),
Reunion (novel), MacAdam/Cage (San Francisco, CA),
Contributor to periodicals and journals.
SIDELIGHTS: Michael B. Oren is an historian with dual citizenship in the United States and Israel. He served in the Israeli army and government and represented Isr
Podcasts
A detailed account mostly political of the lead up to the six day war (beginning in ) and continuing for about five years after the war. It has a very academic flavor the author seems to like LBJ (?) and dislike Dayan. He does present some Arab sources and a few from the soviets
Well worth reading
I saw Mr Oren on the I24news network and his analysis of the current Israeli/Hamas situation so impressed me that I wanted to find out who he was. I then learnt that he has written several non-fiction books and two fictions.
n an extremely well written book Michael Oren has provided an in depth and remarkably honest analysis of ongoing tensions between the Obama administration and Israel.
Un livre passionnant, un roman a la fois sur la deuxieme guerre mondiale et sur l amitie durable creee entre les combattants. Difficile de le poser
Michael Oren
Dr. Michael B. Oren is the current Ambassador of Israel to the United States.
A graduate of Princeton and Columbia, Dr. Oren has received fellowships from the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, and from the British and Canadian governments. Formerly, he was the Lady Davis Fellow of Hebrew University, a Moshe Dayan Fellow at Tel Aviv University, and the Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown.
Ambassador Oren has written extensively for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The New Republic, where he was a contributing editor. His two most recent books, Six Days of War: June and the Making of the Modern Middle East and Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, to the Present, were both New York Times bestsellers. They won the Los Angeles Times' History Book of the Year prize, a National Council of the Humanities Award, and the National Jewish Book Award.
Raised in New Jersey where he was an activist in Zionist youth movements and a gold medal winning athlete in the Maccabia Games, Ambassador Oren moved to Israel in the s. He served as
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