American Presidents & Israel:
Gerald Ford Administration

(1974 - 1977)

Presidents & Israel: Table of Contents | Quotes on Israel | Photos with Israeli Leaders

President Ford & Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 1975 (Photo Israeli GPO)

1976

• News Conference: U.S. Relations with Israel (10/20/76)
• Ford Remarks at B'nai B'rith Biennial Convention (September)
• Letter to Yitzhak Rabin on the Israeli Rescue of Hostages in Uganda (July)
• News Conference on Hostages in Uganda (7/9/76)
• Ford Speech at American Jewish Committee (May)
• Message to Congress on First Report of the U.S. Sinai Support Mission (April)
• Ford on U.S. Aid to Israel (3/3/76)
• United States-Israel Convention on Income Tax (February)

1975

• U.S. Emergency Oil Supply Pact With Israel
• Ford Remarks on The Middle East and the UN (November)
• Israel and Generalized System of Preferences (November)
• Proposing Legislation to Fund Security Assistance Programs (October)
• Signing the Bill for U.S. Participation in Early Warning System in the Sinai (October)
• Ford on the United Nations and Foreign Assistance (September)
• Letter to Congress for U.S. Participation in the Early Warning System in the Sinai (September)
• Statement on the Interim Egyptian-Israeli Troop Disengagement Agreement (September)
• Ford News Conference (9/16/75)
• Letter from Ford to Prime Minister Rabin (9/1/75)
• Conversations with Kissinger, Rabin & Sadat on Egyptian-Israeli Agreement (September)
• Letter to Ford by Senators Condemning His Blaming Israel for Peace Process Suspension (5/22/75)
• Statement on the Terrorist Attack in Tel Aviv, Israel (3/6/75)
• Toasts of the President and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1/23/75)

1974

• Letter to Ford by 71 Senators Concerning “Reassessment” (12/9/74)
• Ford Welcomes Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (9/10/74)