Saban Center for Middle East Policy
The Saban Center for Middle East Policy is a research organization established at the Brookings Institution in 2002 through the donation of $13 million by the Israeli media-mogul Haim Saban. [1]
Its current director is Kenneth M. Pollack, who took over in 2010 from the veteran pro-Israel lobbyist Martin Indyk, who had earlier founded the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, an AIPAC spinoff, to counter the Brooking Institution which was seen as not pro-Israel enough.
Explaining his rationale behind the center, Saban told the New York Times:
- "I've heard from leaders on both sides of the aisle in the United States and leaders in Europe about what Sharon shouldn't do, I haven't heard one educated suggestion about what he should do."[2]
People
- Kenneth M. Pollack, Director (2009- )
- Martin Indyk, Senior Fellow, former director (2002-09)
References
- ↑ 'Saban Family Foundation Announces $100 Million in Charitable Gifts; Major Gifts Made To Research, Healthcare and Education Organizations In The U.S. and Israel', Business Wire, 23 June 2003
- ↑ Andrew Ross Sorkin, 'Schlepping to Moguldom', New York Times, 5 September 2004
