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The RJCF Gala 2020 Keynote speaker: Caroline B. Glick
Posted on January 11, 2020

RJCF Gala 2020 Keynote speaker

 

Caroline B. Glick is a senior columnist at Israel Hayom, Israel’s largest circulation newspaper. Her work in English appears in Israel Hayom’s English edition and is syndicated to scores of Jewish newspapers and web publications worldwide. Glick served as senior columnists and senior contributing editor from 2002-2019 and as senior columnist at Maariv Hebrew newspaper from 2014-2019.

Glick is the author of The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East, (Crown 2014) and of Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad, (Gefen 2008). The Israeli Solution was endorsed by leading US policymakers including Vice President Mike Pence, Senator Ted Cruz and former national security advisor John Bolton. Shackled Warrior was endorsed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former CIA director James Woolsey.

Glick is the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC. She travels worldwide to brief policymakers on issues related to Israel's strategic environment and related topics. She lectures widely on strategic and political issues affecting global security, Israel and the Jewish people, US-Israel relations, Israel-Diaspora affairs and Israel's changing strategic landscape.

Glick was raised in Chicago, IL. She moved to Israel in 1991, two weeks after receiving her BA in Political Science from Columbia University. She joined the Israel Defense Forces that summer and served as an officer for five and a half years.

From 1994-1996, as an IDF captain, Ms. Glick served in the Defense Ministry as a core member of Israel’s negotiating team with the Palestinians.

In 1997 and 1998 Ms. Glick served as Assistant Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

From 1998-2000 Ms. Glick studied at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and received a Master’s in Public Policy in June 2000.

In the summer of 2000 Ms. Glick returned to Israel and began writing at Makor Rishon newspaper, (Hebrew). She served as chief diplomatic commentator for Makor Rishon until January 2008.

During Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, Ms. Glick covered the US-led invasion of Iraq as an embedded journalist with the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. Reporting for the Post, Maariv, Israel TV’s Channel 2 and the Chicago Sun Times, Ms. Glick was one of the only female journalists on the front lines with the US forces and the first Israeli journalist to report from Baghdad.

Ms. Glick’s writings have also been published in leading newspapers and journals including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, National Review, the Journal of International Security Affairs, and Commentary. Glick blogs at her website www.carolineglick.com and on her Facebook author page and Twitter.

Glick has received numerous awards for her commentary. Among others, she received the Ben Hecht award for Middle East reporting from the Zionist Organization of America, the Abramowitz Prize for Media Criticism by Israel Media Watch, the Guardian of Zion award by Bar Ilan University and the Courage of Zion Prize for Zionist pioneering by the Moskowitz Foundation.

Glick and her husband Shimon Suissa live with their sons Yoav and Shilo and their dogs in Efrat, Israel.