dan david prize for dr. fauci
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Dear Attorney Cohen, Thank you for your email. I agree that the term "payoff" in the headline is a little inflammatory and intended to attract attention. Respectfully, whether Dr. Fauci does or does not merit professional recognition for his role in dealing with the pandemic is not the issue. The problem is a large financial reward to a U.S. government official from an institution that is closing tied to a foreign government. That is problematic for the reasons that I tried to explain in the article. I hope you have considered whether you will still defend this practice when a university supported by a government with which you do not agree gives a large financial reward to a government official for a policy with which you also do not agree. That was the point of the article. It is accepting the financial component -- if Dr. Fauci does indeed accept it -- not the professional recognition that creates the impropriety. No personal affront to Dr. Fauci or to the Dan David Foundation or its distinguished board was intended. But thank you for sharing your perspective and contributing to dialogue on this important issue. E. Donald Elliott Professor (adjunct) of Law Yale Law School On Mar 20, 2021, at 5:54 AM, Israel Cohen SE © email. com> wrote: Hello Prof. Elliott -- I saw your American Spectator article Israel's $1 Million Payoff to Dr. Fauci Violates the Constitution at id=119049414803510&story_fbid=5199266416781759 I think it is fair to say that the occurrence of the Covid pandemic significantly increased the likelihood of Dr. Fauci becoming the sole recipient of one of the 3 Dan David Prizes awarded this year. The pandemic brought into sharp focus his contribution to this and other serious health crises during his career. The reasons for his visibility are cogently explained at https://theconversation.com/10-reasons-why-anthony-fauci-was-ready-to-be-the-face-of-theus-pandemic-response-150596 It is not fair to say that he received the $1 million prize "as a payoff from Israel". The Dan David Foundation is a private charitable organization similar in concept to the organization that awards the Nobel prizes. The Dan David Prizes are almost as large but definitely not as well-known as the Nobel prize. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize However, the method of determining who receives them is similar. There are 12 members on the board of the Dan David Foundation. They are listed at https://www.dandavidprize.org/about/the-board Four seem to be US citizens, including Henry Kissinger who was the US Secretary of State. Four seem to be Israeli, including Ariel David (son of the founder) and Ariel Porat (president of Tel Aviv University). Four seem to be French, including Emmanuel Roman who spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs. There were 4 members on the Review Committee who evaluated potential recipients of the prize that Dr. Fauci received. They are listed at https://www.dandavidprize.org/about/review-committees 1 - Prof Elizabeth Miller of the Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health in London, UK. 2 - Prof Philip Greenland at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. 3 - Prof. Fred Binka at the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ghana. 4 - Prof. Daniel Cohen, Head of the School of Public Health at Tel Aviv University in Israel. Five of the 16 people mentioned above are probably Israeli and none of them has any significant connection to the Israeli government. Comment by Israel A. Cohen Tel Aviv, Israel inactive member of the Florida Bar cc: Editor, Spectator Barbara Gastel (Texas A&M) NIAID news room Ariel Porat, president, TAU Dan David Prize email