On 10 December 2019, B’nai B’rith CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin participated in a panel entitled “U.S. Influence in the Mediterranean: Why It Still Matters” at the Hudson Institute in cooperation with the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and B’nai B’rith International.

The panel focused on U.S. influence in the Mediterranean even as other actors – including Iran, Turkey and Russia – vie for influence and for strategic control of the region’s energy resources, increasing tensions and threatening to upset the area’s delicate power balance. Panelists discussed how the U.S. can promote stability and American interests in this challenging atmosphere and drew on the Hudson Institute’s report “The Eastern Mediterranean in the New Era of Major Power Competition.”