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Opinion Who Today Will Make “The Ultimate Sacrifice”? Today’s world is increasingly divided between citizens who are willing to fight and, if necessary, die for their values — and those who are not. Michael Oren · Jun 04, 2026 An alarming number of Jewish soldiers who fell in the World Wars were mistakenly buried beneath…
Opinion A Time for Intimacy As Israel gets ready to respond to any US-Iran deal, now is the time to enter into an intimate discussion with the White House about protecting our future security. Michael Oren · May 28, 2026 As of this writing, it is still unclear whether President Trump will authorize another major…
Opinion Land, Law, and Freedom: Why Shavuot is THE Zionist Holiday The Children of Israel’s achievement at Sinai—and the goals of the earliest Zionist thinkers. Michael Oren · May 21, 2026 If freedom is impossible without responsibility and Zionism is defined by responsibility, then, for the Jewish people, true freedom comes only with Zionism. Behind…
Clarity Beyond the Precipice Whether in the horrors of October 7 or the full-fledged US-Israeli alliance against Iran, I know of no modern precedents. The Jewish people stand at a hinge of history. Michael Oren May 13, 2026 Throughout the more than two-and-a-half years of this war, there have been many moments that Israel and…
As a Member of Knesset and Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, he interacted with foreign leaders and defended Israel in the media. As Chairman of a classified subcommittee, he dealt with some of Israel’s most sensitive security issues.Frequently interviewed by the U.S. and international press, he has appeared on the Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher shows, 60 Minutes, and the View. He was the Middle East analyst for CBS and CNN.
Raised in New Jersey, Oren made aliyah in the 1970s, was an emissary to Jewish refuseniks in the Soviet Union, and won two gold medals in the Maccabiah Games. In the Israel Defense Forces, he served as a Lone Soldier in the paratroopers and as an IDF Spokesman, participating in several wars and reaching the rank of major. He established the Lone Soldier caucus in the Knesset.
Traces the special relationship between the United States and the Jewish State beyond Israel’s founding to the Puritan Pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock and through the minds of John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, and Harry Truman. Drawing on stirring examples from his books, Ambassador Oren shows how famous Americans such as Herman Melville, John Steinbeck, and Mark Twain contributed to the making of Israel.
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Ally is the story of that enduring alliance—and of its divides—written from the perspective of a man who treasures his American identity while proudly serving the Jewish State he has come to call home.
Ally is the story of that enduring alliance—and of its divides—written from the perspective of a man who treasures his American identity while proudly serving the Jewish State he has come to call home.
Set in Belgium’s Ardennes Forest, the site of a brutal, last-ditch assault by the Nazis in December 1944, “Reunion” reunites the surviving members of the 133rd Infantry Battalion for one last chance to relive their youth…
An escaped murderer holds a young woman hostage in ‘House of Bondage’. In ‘The Maestro of Yerucham’, a Russian violinist who has survived the Nazi and Soviet regimes finds a young girl
In 2048: The Rejuvenated State, Ambassador Michael Oren sets out his vision for Israel in honor of Israel’s 75th Independence Day 25 years in the future.
This book represents the first scholarly examination of the origins of the 1956 Sinai campaign between Egypt and Israel. Utilising a wide range of primary …
A medieval slave-turned-sultan, an alien who declines to visit Earth, a prophet who dares to ask “is God funny?” and a ghost who fears the living
In Michael Oren’s beautifully rendered novel, an unsuspecting coach and guidance counselor gets drawn into an illicit relationship and a macabre murder …
‘Six Days of War,’ coming soon after Israel–on a 30 year declassification rule–opened its archies on 1967, is a powerful rendering of what has turned out to be a world-historical event.[/ultimate_heading][ultimate_heading main_heading=”Gary J. Bass” main_heading_color=”#ffffff” sub_heading_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.5)” alignment=”left” main_heading_style=”font-weight:bold;” main_heading_font_size=”desktop:34px;” main_heading_line_height=”desktop:44px;” sub_heading_line_height=”desktop:30px;” sub_heading_font_size=”desktop:20px;” el_class=”accent-subtitle-color” main_heading_margin=”margin-bottom:5px;” sub_heading_font_family=”font_family:PT Serif|font_call:PT+Serif|variant:700″ sub_heading_style=”font-weight:700;”]The New York Times[/ultimate_heading]
A detailed account mostly political of the lead up to the six day war (beginning in 1948 ) 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
