The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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In 1974, the Hadassah Wizo of Canada, a Jewish women's philanthropic organization, inscribed Max Fisher as a governor of the Haifa Community College in Winnipeg.
Max Fisher, Yigal Allon and Yosef Tekoah
Agreement for the Reconstitution of the Jewish Agency of Israel
Left to Right (seated): Gottlieb Hammer (Executive Vice Chairman, UIA); Melvin Dubinsky (President and Board Chairman of UIA); Frank Kellogg (Special Assistant to the Secretary of State) Left to Right (standing): Simcha Dinitz (Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.); Leonard Garment (Special Consultant to President Nixon); Walter Stoessel, Jr. (Assistant Secretary for European Affairs); Joseph Sisco (Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs); Marshall Wright (Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations); Max M. Fisher (Chairman, Jewish Agency Board of Governors).
Max Fisher meeting with Richard Nixon and other leaders, including John Ehrlichman, William Rogers, Rabbi Hershel Schacter, and William Wxler, in the White House in 1970.
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and President Jimmy Carter
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, discusses Fisher's influence with President Ford.
Bob McCabe describes his early days as president of Detroit Renaissance.
Left to Right: Alan E. Schwartz, Joseph L. Hudson, Robert E. McCabe, Max M. Fisher, A. Alfred Taubman
Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
Bob McCabe describes the relationship between Max Fisher and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.
Max Fisher and Zalman Shazar
Robert Aronson on Max Fisher's fundraising prowess.
Detroit News on July 15, 1971
Jewish Statesmanship Award
Special Consultant to the President on Voluntary Action