Ambassador Zalman Shoval in Conversation with Rabbi Peter Rubinstein: Jerusalem and Washington

As a member of Israel’s Likud party, an early ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and a two-time ambassador to the United States, Zalman Shoval has navigated the complicated relationships among Israel’s various ministers and political parties.

Journey behind the closed doors of Jerusalem and Washington, into the rooms where prime ministers and presidents made decisions about the first Gulf War, the fate of Jonathan Pollard, the role of the PLO, and Israel’s responses to international criticism and hostilities.