The former Israeli ambassador to the United States described what it would take to restore security for the tens of thousands of Israelis displaced from the Lebanese border.
By Josh Hasten
Several times a year, groups of Americans from various emergency agencies arrive to spend a week in classroom training and fieldwork alongside their Israeli counterparts. Then they take their new skills back home.
Someone get them a ladder over at Princeton's Hillel.
Orly speaks with Israel's Vice-Minister Michael Aaron about politics and his newest book.
A profile of the man Police hope will unwillingly take down Prime Minister Netanyahu.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai speaks with Ambassador MK Michael Oren, MK Rabbi Yehudah Glick on the children of Otniel and with Rabbi Mike Feuer on the Big Bang. It's a show not to be missed.
Alan Weinkratz was a well-known figure in the Israeli hi-tech startup scene.
MK Michael Oren's visit highlights the importance of Gush Etzion to Israel and how Hub Etzion fulfills a crucial role in successfully combining Zionism and business.
MK Oren said Israel must not interfere in U.S. politics but also should not stay silent over Trump's "No Muslims" speech.
Senior U.S. officials will welcome Arab MK Ayman Odeh who refuses to condemn Arab terror and blames it on Israel.
Oren said that it’s the president’s right to bring into the White House a different worldview that’s unlike his predecessors.
ADL's Foxman slams Oren for mentioning Obama's Muslim upbringing in an essay about Obama's views on the Muslim world.
Kachlon seems to be concerned about an apparent delusion that he will visit the White one day as Israel's Prime Minister.
State Dept. says Oren's characterization of Obama's actions with respect to Israel are "absolutely false."
Guess which ally helps the other, lets it take credit and then gets spat on?
Oren spilled the beans on Obama one week before his new book is released and four months after he dumped Netanyahu in the election campaign.
Sanity prevails: leadership of UC Irvine student government vetoes ban on American and other flags
Moshe Kahlon courts Michael Oren but rejects Rami Levi. Shas and Jewish Home divorces not yet final.
By Rachel Levy
The Obama administration casts Hamas in the light of a legitimate organization, not the terror group it is listed as by the US itself.
Ambassador Oren: the U.S. should rescind its hasty recognition of the Fatah-Hamas unity government (PUG).
Free speech rights of UC Irvine Muslim students did not trump Amb. Michael Oren's right to speak.
Academic boycotts of Israel are Anti-Semitic; American taxpayers must not be forced to be complicit.
Michael Oren thinks if the U.S. can't force Israel to give up land for nothing, Israel should do it on its own.
Many Israeli officials are known to think a lot of themselves, but Ron Dermer, Israel’s next ambassador to the United States, takes the cake. He has demanded to start working before an agreed date and has come up with unprecedented demands for housing and staff, according to the Hebrew-language Yediot Acharonot newspaper. Dermer wants to […]
Ron Dermer, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s choice to succeed American-born Michael Oren as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, moved to Israel 16 years ago but his mother Yaffa told the Miami Herald, “ I think he’ll do a wonderful job because he’s a red-blooded American.” Yaffa Dermer, a resident of Florida but born and […]
Outgoing Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren was the only American to hold the post – until Tuesday. Netanyahu has appointed Ron Dermer, a close aide, to take over the job.
By JTA
Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to Washington, announced that he is leaving his post this fall. “Israel and the United States have always enjoyed a special relationship and, throughout these years of challenge, I was privileged to take part in forging even firmer bonds,” Oren said in a statement sent to the media and posted […]
By JTA
Israel's U.S. ambassador Michael Oren, said the Oscar-nominated documentary "The Gatekeepers" complicates his mission. The movie compiles interviews with six former leaders of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, and records their perceptions of how successive Israeli governments missed opportunities for peace. "This is a good movie that presents a narrative of 45 years […]
By JTA
Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to Washington, opened the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC)annual policy conference with an appeal for pro-Israel outreach to African Americans, Latinos and Muslims and others. "Reach out to the churches in your community, to the African Americans, the Latinos, to the mosques," Oren said Sunday after he was asked what […]
There are many potential Ron Dermers at the world’s universities today, if only we can nurture their gifts in their formative years.
In an interview with PBS NewsHour's Ray Suarez, Israel Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren explained the explosion of images circulating around the world, allegedly showing dead Gazan children "targeted" by Israeli air strikes.
The Resolution was introduced by Sabreen Shalabi, and seconded by Shadi Jafari, with support from Ali Abunimeh and Noam Chomsky.
The Weekly Standard is already advancing the speculation that Debbie Wasserman Schultz be let go from her post as DNC chair following her blatant lie regarding Republicans, Israel, and Israel's ambassador Michael Oren. In a TV appearance Tuesday night, Debbie Wasserman Schultz was asked about the Michael Oren email. But instead of acknowledging her misstatement, […]
By Tibbi Singer
Back in August, Hadassah Magazine interviewed Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and one of their question was: "Why did you call on both parties to refrain from challenging each other over support for Israel?" The DNC chair answered: "What the Republicans are doing is dangerous ... Israel’s ambassador Michael Oren, has said this." Then she repeated the allegation at a DNC convention forum. So the ambassador sent out an email.
By Lauren Schmidt, Israel Campus Beat
Oren stressed the importance of treating every question with respect, noting that there is only one question that he refuses to respect. “I won't respect any question that draws a comparison between Israel and the Nazis," he said. "I won't respond to that, at least not respectfully."
A major annual US gay conference will feature Israel and its gay community this year. The Equality Forum’s four-day event in Philadelphia, ending Sunday, featured Israeli gay performers, activists, and Israeli ambassador Michael Oren. Each year, the conference chooses another country as its theme. Gaycities.com rated Israel the top Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual travel […]
The Washington Post quoted a Republican congressional aide as saying that the House Armed Services Committee will propose the increase when it convenes next week to formulate the 2013 fiscal year's defense budget. There are currently four operational and actively deployed Iron Dome batteries in Israel, but "at least ten" are needed to defend the whole country.
The Iron Dome Support Act (IDSA) authorizes and encourages President Obama to provide funds for the "procurement, maintenance and sustainment" of more of the anti-missile defense systems, should the Israeli government request it. The legislation was actually inspired by an op-ed by Israeli Ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, in which he wrote that "at least ten Iron Dome systems will be necessary in order to defend the whole country."
