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Unshakeable and unbreakable.

Those two words were used by the Obama administration

to describe the special intimate relationship

between Israel and the United

States. When Michael Oren found himself almost against all odds serving as Israel's ambassador

to the U.S. in 2009, he found out sooner rather than later that these relations were, in fact,

very shakeable and maybe even breakable. His impossible job was to prevent

that from happening. Promising change in peace, Obama entered the White House with a burst of optimism,

and some might argue arrogance. To Michael Oren, the Obama administrations and its relations

with Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu shaped to be the greatest

challenge of his life. In his book titled, Ally, My Journey Across the American-Israeli divide,

Orrin depicts the almost unimaginable chain of events that took place during his four-and-a-half-year

term as an ambassador. Since this January marks one year to the end of the Obama era,

we thought it was a good opportunity to recap, look at the Obama years from a distance,

and discuss his legacy. Michael Oren is a deputy minister in the prime minister's office,

member of Knesset in the Kulano Party, and he served as the Israeli ambassador to the United States

in the years 2009 to 2013. In a previous life, Owen also taught history

at the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University and was a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale,

and Georgetown. He is the author of several books, both fiction and nonfiction. Deputy Minister

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