David Friedman

DAVID FRIEDMAN (JERUSALEM, NEW YORK, NEW YORK & BOCA RATON, FLORIDA) served as the United States Ambassador to Israel from 2017 to 2021. Under his leadership, the United States made unprecedented and historic diplomatic advances, including oving its Embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Ambassador Friedman was also one of the architects of the Abraham Accords. For his efforts, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and granted the National Security Medal. 

On numerous occasions, The Jerusalem Post has named Ambassador Friedman one of the 50 most influential Jews in the world — he rose to number 2 in 2019 and number 1 in 2020.  In 2021, The New York Times described him "as one of America’s most influential envoys" and as someone "who drove the radical overhaul of White House policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

Ambassador Friedman is the bestselling author of Sledgehammer: How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East, and the executive producer and co-star, with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, of Route 60: The Biblical Highway, a film about Judea and Samaria. In 2021, he launched the Friedman Center for Peace through Strength which has recently launched a project that bears the name of this book: One Jewish State.

He lives with his wife, Tammy, in the Jerusalem, Florida, and New York City metro areas and is a proud father and grandfather.

To learn more about the One Jewish State movement and get involved, go to OneJewishState.net.

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