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Martin Indyk, the former US ambassador to Israel, has spent a lifetime researching and influencing Middle East politics. Born in England, raised in Australia and his career centered in the USA, Martin Indyk moves between real world politics and academia without losing faith in his stated goal – peace between Israel and its neighbors.

Martin Indyk

In this interview, Martin Indyk speaks of the path he followed from a young int’l relations student and volunteer in a kibbutz during the 1973 Yom Kippur war, until he was made the first (and second) Jewish American ambassador to Israel. How old dreams can come true, how they can sputter away and disappear, and how not to lose faith in them – this is the tale of Martin Indyk.