Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny was written by Ambassador Dennis Ross with his colleague David Makovsky. It provides profiles of four Israeli prime ministers who made historic choices and explores the lessons from those decisions to see if they can provide a guide to dealing with the fateful choice that Israel’s leaders must soon confront or by default become a binational state.

Rabbi Safra will interview our distinguished guests about the issue raised in this highly acclaimed book followed by Q&A with the audience.

Please RSVP here. Questions?

Contact Rachel Hyman, Program Associate (301-816-5562).

Free and Open to the Public

AMBASSADOR DENNIS ROSS is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The
Washington Institute for Near East Policy. For more than twelve years, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process. He served two years as special assistant to President Obama, National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. A graduate of UCLA, Ambassador Ross wrote his doctoral dissertation on Soviet decision-making, and served as executive director of the Berkeley-Stanford program on Soviet International Behavior.

DAVID MAKOVSKY is the Ziegler distinguished fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Project on Arab-Israel Relations. He is also an adjunct professor in Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). In 2013–2014, he worked in the Office of the U.S. Secretary of State, serving as a senior advisor to the Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations. Before joining The Washington Institute,
Mr. Makovsky was an award-winning journalist who covered the peace process from 1989 to 2000. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. Makovsky received a bachelor’s degree from Columbia
University and a master’s degree in Middle East studies from Harvard University.