Historian, author, and a member of the Israeli Knesset; author of Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present and Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide; former Israeli ambassador to the United States; former Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem
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