Conference Summaries
/ Israel and the Middle East
On 19 May 2014, a symposium on American foreign policy towards Israel and the Middle East, hosted by Mitvim – the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies and the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, was held at Tel Aviv University. Speaking at the event were three distinguished guests, Jeremy BenAmi, President of J Street; Alon Pinkas, former Israeli Consul General in New York and advisor to four former foreign ministers; and Dr. Ilai Saltzman, board member at the Mitvim Institute and lecturer at Claremont McKenna College, USA. Yael Patir of J Street and the Mitvim Institute chaired the symposium.