The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.
Robert Aronson explains how Max Fisher has been indispensible to Israeli leaders in helping them deal with America.
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, explains Fisher's lead-by-example fundraising strategy.
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
In 1999 Max Fisher was named a Michiganian of the Year by The Detroit News.
Max and his wife Marjorie at the National Distinguished Leadership Award festivities.
1999, Michiganian of the Year Award
Max Fisher with former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Rabbi Shlomo Goren at the Founding Assembly of the RAFI in June 1971.
Max Fisher with Leon Dulzin, Joseph Sternstein, Charlotte Jacobson, and Ephraim Evron at the American Assembly for Zionism and Israel in 1981.
Bob McCabe discusses Max Fisher's key role in the Detroit Renaissance, his leadership and his ability to build consensus.
Letter to Max M. Fisher from Jack J. Spitzer, President of B'nai B'rith International.
Max Fisher in front of the iconic Fisher Building in Detroit, and in his office on the 22nd floor.
Detroit Renaissance Resolution of Appreciation Award
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, discusses Fisher's influence with President Ford.
Max Fisher, Yigal Allon and Yosef Tekoah