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Michael Oren

Michael Oren, formerly Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, a Member of the Knesset, and Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, is the author of To All Who Call in Truth (Wicked Son, 2021).

  • The late writer Stuart Schoffman, who emigrated to Israel in the dark years after the Yom Kippur War
    The late writer Stuart Schoffman, who emigrated to Israel in the dark years after the Yom Kippur War
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    Talking About My Generation

    Reflecting upon the difficult years as early immigrants to Israel, and the legacy those ‘olim’ left behind

    byMichael Oren
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    Are Politicians Who Talk About God Crazy?

    The American personal relationship with God is weird and off-putting to Israelis, as I found out to my dismay. But the poles of religiosity may be reversing.

    byMichael Oren
  • An Iron Dome anti-rocket system, at right, and a U.S. Patriot missile defense system, left, during a joint Israel-U.S. military exercise in 2018
    An Iron Dome anti-rocket system, at right, and a U.S. Patriot missile defense system, left, during a joint Israel-U.S. military exercise in 2018
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    Is U.S. Aid a Threat to Israel?

    The IDF is addicted to credits for shiny new American weapons. But the strategic price may be too high.

    byMichael Oren
  • 'The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem'
    'The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem'
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    The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem

    At best, Israel’s latest hit television show is plodding and predictable. At worst, it is willfully and dangerously ahistorical.

    byMichael Oren
  • Marta Dusseldorp as Sarah Nordmann in a ‘A Place to Call Home’
    Marta Dusseldorp as Sarah Nordmann in a ‘A Place to Call Home’
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    A Place to Call Home

    The Australian series, set in the aftermath of World War II, portrays religious life (and Jews) with bracing sincerity

    byMichael Oren
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at left, holds up the document after participating in the signing of the Abraham Accords, in which Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, at the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 15, 2020
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at left, holds up the document after participating in the signing of the Abraham Accords, in which Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, at the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 15, 2020
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    The Death of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

    A big problem that the Biden administration suddenly won’t have to deal with

    byMichael Oren
  • Audrey Fleurot and Richard Sammel in ‘A French Village’
    Audrey Fleurot and Richard Sammel in ‘A French Village’
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    It Takes a Village

    A French television drama shows courage in depicting the true scope of the country’s crimes during the Holocaust, which it then washes away in a bizarre assertion of moral equivalence

    byMichael Oren
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