On September 3, 2024, the Richard Nixon Foundation and the Harry S. Truman Institute at the Hebrew University partnered to host a symposium exploring how the grand strategy foreign policy approach to the Middle East in the 1970s can be applied today.
Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary President Nixon’s trip to the Middle East in 1974, a group of panelists at the Nixon Library joined virtual participants live from Israel to discuss the consequential impacts and effects of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the implementation of the Nixon administration’s foreign policy grand strategy and how it set the stage for a peace process that led to the 1978 Camp David Accords.
The panelists drew from their experience in areas of diplomacy, politics and academia to discuss how the examples of leadership, statecraft and alliances in the 1970s continue to be relevant.
Participants:
Norm Coleman, Chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition and former U.S. Senator from Minnesota
Yossi Gal, Hebrew University Vice President for University Advancement and External Relations and former Ambassador for Israel, and former Director General of the Foreign Ministry of Israel
Ifat Maoz, Head of The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace
Dan Meridor, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence, of Justice of Finance for Israel
Or Rabinowitz, Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University Department of International Relations
Frank Gannon (Moderator), former Special Assistant to President Nixon
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