The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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An excerpt from The Congressional Record detailing the $50 million loan to Israel agreement.
Max and Marjorie Fisher with Henry Ford II and his wife, Christina, during a trip to Israel in 1972.
Max Fisher presenting an award to Nate Appleman.
Gene Miller calls Max Fisher a Detroit legend.
Mary Fisher on Max's ability to find the solution.
United Jewish Appeal LBJ Plaque
Max Fisher, Golda Meir and others
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Honorary Doctorate
The Riverfront development in Detroit, part of the city's Renaissance led by Fisher and Taubman
Max M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.
Detroit Renaissance Resolution of Appreciation Award
Left to Right: Max M. Fisher, Louis Hamburger, Edward C. Levy, Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Itzhak Rabin, and Samuel Hamburger during the Jewish Welfare Federation Pacesetters Meeting at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit.
Max Fisher with future Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and Louis Pincus at the Founding Assembly for the Reconstituted JAFI in Jerusalem in 1971.
Congratulatory letter from Israeli President Ezer Weizman to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
In 1988, Max Fisher was awarded this elaborate Shield of Zion by the American Zionist Federation of Los Angeles.