By Michael B. Oren

Ny occasions bestselling writer Michael B. Oren’s memoir of his time as Israel’s ambassador to the United States—a interval of transformative swap for the United States and a time of violent upheaval through the heart East—provides a frank, attention-grabbing glance contained in the certain courting among the United States and its closest best friend within the region.

Michael Oren served because the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. from 2009 to 2013. An American by means of beginning and a historian by means of education, Oren arrived at his diplomatic submit simply as Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton assumed place of work. in the course of Oren’s tenure in place of work, Israel and the US grappled with the Palestinian peace approach, the Arab Spring, and existential threats to Israel posed by means of foreign terrorism and the Iranian nuclear software. cast within the Truman management, America’s alliance with Israel used to be subjected to huge, immense traces, and its destiny was once wondered by way of commentators in either nations. On a couple of celebration, the friendship’s very cloth appeared with reference to unraveling.

Ally is the tale of that enduring alliance—and of its divides—written from the point of view of a guy who treasures his American identification whereas proudly serving the Jewish country he has come to name domestic. not anyone might have been greater fitted to improve bridges among the USA and Israel than Michael Oren—a guy both at domestic leaping out of a aircraft as an Israeli paratrooper and discussing heart East historical past on TV’s Sunday morning political exhibits. within the pages of this fast moving booklet, Oren interweaves the tale of his own trip with behind-the-scenes money owed of fateful conferences among President Obama and top Minister Netanyahu, high-stakes summits with the Palestinian chief Mahmoud Abbas, and diplomatic crises that intensified the debate surrounding the world’s such a lot contested strip of land.

A quintessentially American tale of a tender guy who refused to relinquish a dream—irrespective of the obstacles—and an inherently Israeli tale approximately assuming hard tasks, best friend is instantly a list, a chronicle, and a confession. And it's a tale approximately love—about a person lucky adequate to like nations and to symbolize one to the opposite. yet, certainly, this memoir is a testomony to an alliance that was once and should stay very important for american citizens, Israelis, and the world.

Praise for Ally

“Michael Oren goes to be the debate of Washington and Jerusalem. . . . I’m unsure that during the annals of diplomatic background there’s ever been whatever fairly like this fantastic account of Oren’s 4 years as Israel’s ambassador in Washington. It’s an final insider’s tale instructed whereas the entire gamers retailer Oren are nonetheless in place.”—New York publish