Michael Oren

Michael Oren
Oren in August 2010
Israeli Ambassador to the United States
In office July 20, 2009 – September 30, 2013
Preceded by	Sallai Meridor
Succeeded by	Ron Dermer
Personal details
Born	Michael Scott Bornstein (1955-05-20) May 20, 1955 (age 61) New York, U.S.
Citizenship	Israeli (1979–present) American (1955–2009)
Spouse(s)	Sally Edelstein (m. 1982; 3 children)
Alma mater	Columbia University Princeton University
Religion	Judaism
Military service
Allegiance	State of Israel
Service/branch	Israel Defense Forces

Michael Bornstein Oren (Hebrew: מיכאל אורן; born Michael Scott Bornstein on May 20, 1955) is an American-born Israeli historian, author, politician, former ambassador to the United States (2009–2013), and current member of the Knesset for the Kulanu party and the Deputy Minister for Diplomacy in the Prime Minister's Office.

Oren has written books, articles, and essays on Middle Eastern history, and is the author of the New York Times best-selling Power, Faith and Fantasy and Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, which won the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year Award and the National Jewish Book Award. Oren has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown universities in the United States and at Tel Aviv and Hebrew universities in Israel. He was a Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and a contributing editor to The New Republic. The Forward named Oren one of the five most influential American Jews and The Jerusalem Post listed him as one of the world’s ten most influential Jews.

Oren retired as ambassador to the United States in 2013, replaced by Ron Dermer. In the 2015 Israeli election, Oren was elected to the Knesset for the centrist Kulanu party.