Join Dalia Rabin, the former Israeli Deputy Minister of Defense and current chairperson of the Yitzhak Rabin Center, and Ambassador Dennis Ross, who played a leading role in shaping US involvement in the Middle East peace process, for an enlightening discussion on the future of Israel.
Dalia Rabin currently serves as the chairperson of the Yitzhak Rabin Center, the national institute dedicated to ensuring that the legacy of the late Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Yitzhak Rabin continues to influence Israeli society through its museum, experiential educational program and national archive. Before heading the Yitzhak Rabin Center, Dalia served as a member of the Israeli Government from 1999-2002. She was elected to the Knesset on the Center Party ticket in 1999, acting as chairperson of the Ethics Committee.
Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Prior to returning to the Institute in 2011, he served two years as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. For more than twelve years, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He was instrumental in assisting Israelis and Palestinians to reach the 1995 Interim Agreement; he also successfully brokered the 1997 Hebron Accord, facilitated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty, and intensively worked to bring Israel and Syria together.
Ethan Bronner is the national legal affairs correspondent for The New York Times, having completed four years as The Times’ Jerusalem bureau chief last May. Prior, he had been the paper’s deputy foreign editor for four years, focusing on the Middle East. His most recent tour in Jerusalem was his third as a correspondent there.
This “Live from New York’s 92nd Street Y” event is sponsored by the Cultural Committee of the Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley with special assistance from the estate of long-time supporter Lou Getoff.