Michael Oren, formerly Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Knesset member and deputy minister in the prime minister’s office, is the author of Israel 2048: The Rejuvenated State.
Michael Oren
By Michael Oren
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Opinion Antisemitism is still on the menu this Thanksgiving
As American Jews gather for the holiday, how to combat antisemitism must be a topic of discussion
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Opinion In three funerals, the real spirit of Israel is exemplified
During my years in public office, I attended many shivas for fallen soldiers of Israel. Each of them was emotionally draining. One, though, left an especially profound impression. Hadas Malka, a police officer, was stabbed to death outside Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate in 2017. She had refused to accept a safe desk job in the Israeli…
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Opinion ‘Our own history will judge us’: Michael Oren on why Israel must take a stand for Ukraine
Supporters of Israel — indeed, Israelis themselves — might be surprised to learn that the country’s policy on Ukraine is virtually the same as that of Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. All have refrained from openly condemning Putin. Why would the position of the area’s only Jewish state and its only democracy dovetail with that of…
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Opinion Israel felt pain of 9/11 terror attacks with New Yorkers
Michael Oren recalls that fateful day.
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Opinion On Memorial Day, Reason to Remember
Sixty-six years ago this month, the war in Europe ended. My father, a corporal in a combat engineer company that had fought from Normandy through the Bulge, remembers looking up at a squadron of Allied bombers dropping leaflets over recently liberated territory. “Nazis Quit!” they read. He still has one of those leaflets, laminated, hanging…
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Opinion We Weren’t Always United by Indissoluble Bonds
On June 1, some 100,000 people are expected to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Israeli independence at the annual Israel Day Parade in New York. And over the course of this year, as many as 30,000 young American Jews will visit Israel through Birthright, a program created to strengthen Israeli-Diaspora relations, and thousands more will…
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