Saban Center for Middle East Policy

Saban Center for Middle East Policy is a research organization established at the Brookings Institution in 2002 through the donation of nearly $13 million by the Israeli media-mogul Haim Saban. Its current director is the veteran pro-Israel lobbyist Martin Indyk, who had earlier founded the Washington Institute for Near Policy, an AIPAC spinoff, to counter the Brooking Institution which was seen as not pro-Israel enough.