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Red States, Blue States and the Jewish State, with Gil Hoffman

Jerusalem Post chief political correspondent Gil Hoffman on America's impact on the future of Israel and the wider Middle East, on Yom Ha'atzmaut 2019.

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  • Gil Hoffman

    Chief political correspondent and analyst, The Jerusalem Post

    Hoffman was the Jerusalem Post's chief political correspondent from 1998 to 2022. Raised in Illinois and trained at Northwestern's Medill School, he worked at the Miami Herald and the Arizona Republic before making aliyah at 22, served in an IDF artillery unit and later as an IDF reserves spokesperson, and has covered ten Knesset elections. He is billed as the first Israeli speaker to have lectured in all fifty states.

Gil Hoffman spoke for AIC on Yom Ha’atzmaut 2019, the day Israel turned 71. By then he had been chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post for 20 years, and he had recently made history in Hawaii as the first speaker to lecture about Israel in all 50 states.

He gave a talk with the same title in Birmingham a week earlier, and there it carried a subtitle that says what it’s about: An Insider’s Look at America’s Impact on the Future of Israel and the Wider Middle East.

Hoffman has interviewed every major figure in Israeli politics, left and right. Israel Television once called him “the most optimistic man in Israel.”

He was back in 2026 for Peace, Politics and Propaganda, which AIC co-sponsored.

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