Opening: Congratulations to four treasured members of the JPPI family – to Elliott Abrams, Dennis Ross and Yaakov Katz for their role in organizing the MEAD Summit in Washington, where bipartisan support for Israel was robust; and to Stu Eizenstat who was just awarded France's highest honor – Officier de la Légion d'Honneur. We are blessed, Kol hakavod to them all.

Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat received it because his leadership and diplomatic skills played an important role in France's efforts to commemorate the Holocaust while strengthening Franco-American friendship.