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[[Michael Oren]] is Israeli ambassador to the United States. He was appointed ambassador by Prime Minister [[Benyamin Netanyahu]] on May 3 2009 and had to give up his United States citizenship in order to assume the post.<ref>Mark Landler, [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/world/middleeast/26oren.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1302927177-wG/jzTaQSKtOXSX1KAMWNQ Israeli Ambassador Draws on American Roots,] New York Times, accessed June 6 2012</ref> | [[Michael Oren]] is Israeli ambassador to the United States. He was appointed ambassador by Prime Minister [[Benyamin Netanyahu]] on May 3 2009 and had to give up his United States citizenship in order to assume the post.<ref>Mark Landler, [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/world/middleeast/26oren.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1302927177-wG/jzTaQSKtOXSX1KAMWNQ Israeli Ambassador Draws on American Roots,] New York Times, accessed June 6 2012</ref> | ||
Revision as of 08:52, 26 June 2012
Michael Oren is Israeli ambassador to the United States. He was appointed ambassador by Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu on May 3 2009 and had to give up his United States citizenship in order to assume the post.[1]
Previously he was a professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a distinguished fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem.[2]
Following Israel's incursion into Gaza in December 2009, Oren was called up as an IDF reservist to do public relations work.[3]
On 4 January 2009 he co-authored a Los Angeles Times opinion article on the conflict with Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies of the Shalem Center. His role with the IDF was not mentioned in the piece.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Mark Landler, Israeli Ambassador Draws on American Roots, New York Times, accessed June 6 2012
- ↑ Michael B. Oren, Back to the Front, The New Republic, 4 January 2009.
- ↑ Michael B. Oren, Back to the Front, The New Republic, 4 January 2009.
- ↑ Yossi Klein Halevi and Michael B. Oren, In Gaza, the real enemy is Iran, Los Angeles Times, 4 January 2009.
