Israeli Ambassador To Deliver Monmouth University Commencement Address

Monmouth University will have a special guest for its annual winter commencement ceremony as Ambassador of Israel to the United States Michael Oren will deliver the commencement address to graduates.

Oren will also receive an honorary degree during the ceremony which is set for Friday, Jan. 13 at 1:30 p.m. at the Multipurpose Activity Center (MAC).

The university will award approximately 650 undergraduate and graduate degrees, and Harry S. Pozycki, chairman and founder of The Citizens Campaign, will also receive an honorary degree.

Oren was raised in New Jersey and moved to Israel in the 1970s.  He acted as an Israeli Emissary to Jewish refuseniks in the Soviet Union, as an advisor to Israel's delegation to the United Nations, and as the government's director of Inter-Religious Affairs.

He is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University and has received fellowships from the U.S. Departments of State and Defense, and from the British and Canadian governments.