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A graduate of Princeton and Columbia, Dr. Oren has received fellowships from the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, and from the British and Canadian governments. Formerly, he was the Lady Davis Fellow of Hebrew University, a Moshe Dayan Fellow at Tel-Aviv University, and the Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown.

Ambassador Oren has written extensively for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The New Republic, where he was a contributing editor. His two most recent books, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East and Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, were both New York Times bestsellers. They won the Los Angeles Times' History Book of the Year prize, a National Council of the Humanities Award, and the National Jewish Book Award.

Raised in New Jersey, where he was an activist in Zionist youth movements and a gold medal winning athlete in the Maccabia Games, Ambassador Oren moved to Israel in the 1970s. He served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, in the paratroopers in the Lebanon War, a liaison with the U.S. Sixth Fleet during the Gulf War, and an IDF spokesman during the Second Lebanon War and the Gaza operation in January 2009. He acted as an Israeli Emissary to Jewish refuseniks in the Soviet Union, as an advisor to Israel's delegation to the United Nations, and as the government's director of Inter-Religious Affairs.

Ambassador Oren is married to Sally, and they have three children-Yoav, Lia, and Noam.

	Recipient of the 2011 FAME Messenger of Peace Award 12:00 Noon Service Sunday, March 20, 2011 First AME Church of Los Angeles 2270 South Harvard Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90018 ALL ARE WELCOME! PLEASE JOIN US!
	"The roots of the African-American and Jewish alliance are, like the River Jordan of song, wide and deep. They go back to the decades of partnership between African-American and Jewish activists in the struggle for equal rights in this country_a struggle in which Blacks and Jews gave their lives, Israel, for its part, the Jewish state, is also a multi-racial, multi-ethnic state dedicated to the ideals embodied by Edward Wilmot Blyden, Frederick Douglas, and Dr. Martin Luther King." The Honorable Michael B. Oren Ambassador of Israel to the United States February 2011 FAME Church Welcomes Freedom Riders and the Los Angeles African American Jewish Connection’s Cultural Exchange Program Click Here April 2010 First AME Church of Los Angeles and Wilshire Boulevard Temple Celebrate Passover Seder Together in Unity. Click Here		THE HONORABLE MICHAEL B. OREN AMBASSADOR OF ISRAEL TO THE UNITED STATES Michael B. Oren is the State of Israel's Ambassador to the United States. A graduate of Princeton and Columbia, Dr. Oren has received fellowships from the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, and from the British and Canadian governments. Formerly, he was the Lady Davis Fellow of Hebrew University, a Moshe Dayan Fellow at Tel-Aviv University, and the Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown. Ambassador Oren has written extensively for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The New Republic, where he was a contributing editor. His two most recent books, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East and Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, were both New York Times bestsellers. They won the Los Angeles Times' History Book of the Year prize, a National Council of the Humanities Award, and the National Jewish Book Award. Raised in New Jersey, where he was an activist in Zionist youth movements and a gold medal winning athlete in the Maccabia Games, Ambassador Oren moved to Israel in the 1970s. He served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, in the paratroopers in the Lebanon War, a liaison with the U.S. Sixth Fleet during the Gulf War, and an IDF spokesman during the Second Lebanon War and the Gaza operation in January 2009. He acted as an Israeli Emissary to Jewish refuseniks in the Soviet Union, as an advisor to Israel's delegation to the United Nations, and as the government's director of Inter-Religious Affairs. Ambassador Oren is married to Sally, and they have three children-Yoav, Lia, and Noam.