Ally: My Journey Across the American–Israeli Divide by Michael Oren, Reviewed by Oded Eran

Very few of Israel’s ambassadors in Washington have written insider accounts of the Jewish State’s most important bilateral relationship from the vantage point of the most senior overseas posting in Israel’s foreign service. Michael Oren, a brilliant historian and author, who served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States from 2009–13, set out to do so. Sadly, however, he missed his mark. Of course, it was not the author’s objective to write a comprehensive, scholarly work on the Obama–Israel relationship. That book has yet to be written.