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 moving 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 Posthas 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 Timesdescribed 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 ofSledgehammer: 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, ofRoute 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 Jerusalem and Florida, and is a proud father and grandfather. To learn more about the One Jewish State movement and get involved, go to OneJewishState.net. FriedmanCenter.com
"Praise for Sledgehammer: How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East by Ambassador David Friedman ""When David Friedman took office, the Middle East was seen as a place of intractable conflict. When he left, the Middle East was blossoming into peace between Jews and Arabs. David Friedman was the right historic figure in a tumultuous, chaotic, and ultimately transformative time. In Sledgehammer, David tells the inside story of how the Trump administration changed the Middle East for the better."" --Ben Shapiro ""Ambassador Friedman was essential to the historic progress the United States made in the Middle East during the Trump administration. His book, Sledgehammer, offers important lessons in leadership. He clearly understood that American interests were served by standing firmly with our ally Israel, even when it meant going against long-standing policies. America and Israel are better off because of him."" --Nikki Haley ""The last peace treaty between Israel and an Arab neighbor had been signed in 1994 with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Since then, all the efforts made by multiple US administrations to advance Middle East peace went nowhere. Thus, the Abraham Accords, that brought about normalization agreements between Israel and four Arab states, represented a sharp break from the failures of the recent past. David Friedman provides an insider account of that gripping story in Sledgehammer."" --Dore Gold ""In his book, Sledgehammer, David Friedman, the former US ambassador to Israel, provides his intriguing firsthand, behind-the-scenes account of the extraordinary peace initiatives President Trump and his team, in close coordination with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, launched, leading to the historic Abraham Accords. Friedman was at the center of the most diplomatically successful, pro-Israel administration since that nation's founding. I encourage you to get a copy. Sledgehammer is a must-read."" --Mark Levin"