The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
Max M. Fisher prepares to accept the National Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Jewish Committee in 1994.
Peter Golden explains Max Fisher's role negotiating between Meir and Nixon for re-supply to Israel.
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, chairman of the board of directors, speaking at the United Brands Co. Annual Meeting in 1976.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
Edsel Ford claims the name Max Fisher is synonymous with the city of Detroit.
Henry Ford II presents a check to Max M. Fisher and the United Jewish Appeal.
Bill Berman describes Max Fisher's belief that consensus was not "the middle ground," but the process of getting a group to all reach the right decision.
Jane Sherman talks about her father's motivation to help rebuild Detroit after the 1967 riots.
Congratulatory letter from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Edsel Ford explains why his father, Henry, liked Max Fisher.
Damon Keith recalls Max Fisher's wisdom in negotiations with African-American leaders in Detroit and his commitment to the city.
Max Fisher with future Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and Louis Pincus at the Founding Assembly for the Reconstituted JAFI in Jerusalem in 1971.
Renaissance Center and Riverfront
Max M. Fisher at the Scopus Award Dinner with Alan E. Schwartz and President Gerald R. Ford.