Ambassador Oren: Gilad Shalit Affair "Strengthened, Reaffirms" Israeli Social Contract October 25, 2011

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast

Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor that the prisoner swap for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was "redemption" for the state of Israel, affirming the Israeli social contract.

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On Tuesday, October 25, 2011, Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren joined the Monitor Breakfast for a conversation with reporters.

Michael B. Oren is an American-born Israeli historian and author and the Israeli ambassador to the United States. He has written books, articles, and essays on Middle Eastern history, and is the author of the best-selling 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. He was a Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and a contributing editor to The New Republic and the Shalem Center's quarterly journal, Azure.

A graduate of Princeton and Columbia, Dr. Oren has received fellowships from the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, and from the British and Canadian governments. Formerly, he was the Lady Davis Fellow of Hebrew University, a Moshe Dayan Fellow at Tel-Aviv University, and the Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown.