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The riveting story of the most audacious diplomatic enterprise of the last century--creating and securing the Jewish state--as seen through the eyes of the foremost Israeli diplomat of our generation. Zionist Diplomacy tells the untold story of how the Jewish people used diplomacy to restore their ancient homeland and build a modern nation--the State of Israel--and continue to do so today. Filled with behind-the-scenes accounts of key moments in history--the Balfour Declaration, the UN partition plan, and the fall of the Soviet Union--Ambassador Ron Prosor offers his unique perspective of the Zionist movement's top diplomatic figures, including Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, Abba Eban, and Shimon Peres. He then explores the diplomatic challenges and triumphs facing Israel across his three decades in top diplomatic posts--in Washington, London, Berlin, and at the United Nations--and what Israeli diplomacy must do to thrive in a post-October 7 era.

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Ambassador Ron Prosor is the Ambassador of the State of Israel to Germany. Previously, he served as Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Minister-Counselor for Political Affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC, and Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is the founder and former chairman of the Abba Eban Institute of International Diplomacy at Reichman University. In 2017, he received the Scholar-Statesman Award from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. His articles have been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Times, the Daily Telegraph, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, and numerous other global publications. Peter Lerman is a narrator from the heart of New York City: Brooklyn born and raised. Manhattan and Brooklyn were suffused with the flavors and sounds of the entire world. He tasted it all and heard it all. When you come of age in NYC, nothing is foreign. When you hear a low grumble in his voice on occasion, it is authentic. His first wife told him that he loved her not nearly as much as he loved the sound of his own voice. This made him wonder if other people might love the sound of his voice as well. And so, a narrator was born. Also, an amateur thespian, a trade show presenter, a lecturer, an off-key cabaret singer, and an inveterate teller of jokes one does not tell in mixed company. Peter has been a professional photographer in New York City, owned a model and talent management company, and knocked around from Brooklyn to Manhattan and back again only to wind up in Connecticut. His breath control is fabulous because he is also a board certified respiratory therapist. He has appeared onstage as Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly, Gangster #2 in Kiss Me Kate, Bobby Gould in Speed-the-Plow, the Governor of Texas in Best Little Whorehouse . . ., Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace, and Lenny in Rumors. The voice is deep and resonant. Sometimes formal, sometimes not. Never stale. Always eminently listenable.

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