U.S. Foreign Service with the rank of Career-Minister and assumed a chair in Middle East policy studies at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He co-chaired, with Scott Lasensky, the Study Group on Arab-Israeli Peacemaking, a project supported by the United States Institute of Peace. They published their recommendations in a 2008 book. In 2007, Kurtzer served as the commissioner of the Israel Baseball League, a league discontinued after a single season. He endorsed then-Senator Barack Obama's successful candidacy for the presidency. Kurtzer, James Steinberg, and Dennis Ross were among the principal authors of Barack Obama's address on the Middle East to AIPAC in June 2008, which was viewed as the Democratic nominee's most expansive on international affairs. See also Israel–United States relations References External links Daniel Charles Kurtzer at the U.S. State Department The Audacity of Chutzpah, Dana Milbank, The Washington Post, March 17, 2008 Daniel C. Kurtzer Papers at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University 1949 births Living people Ambassadors of the United States to Egypt Ambassadors of the United States to Israel 20th-century American Jews Baseball executives Columbia University alumni People from Elizabeth, New Jersey Princeton University faculty Yeshiva University alumni United States Foreign Service personnel 21st-century American Jews