Ninth Herzliya Conference

The Ninth Herzliya Conference took place at the IDC Herzliya on 2-4 February 2009.

Program

Monday , February 2, 2009

08:15-09:30 The Security Dimension

Chair: MK Tzachi Hanegbi
 Chairman, Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee  
  
 Mr. Dan Meridor 

Former Member of the Cabinet; Chairman of the National Security Doctrine Commission

Brig. Gen. (res.) Dr. Ephraim Sneh

Former Deputy Minister of Defense Prof. Uzi Arad

Chairman, Herzliya Conference 
 
open discussion 
        

09:30-11:00 The Foreign Relations Dimension

 Chair: Mr. Aaron Abramovich
 Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 
                           Amb. Yossi Gal

Senior Deputy Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

                           Mr. Naor Gilon 
Director, Bureau for International Affairs, Center for Policy Research, 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

 Mr. Eran Etzion
 Director, Policy Planning Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 
 
open discussion 
  

08:15-09:45 The Societal Dimension

Chair: Col. (res.) Ahuva Yanai
CEO, Matan 
   
 Mr. Isaac (Buji) Herzog  

Minister of Welfare and Social Services and Minister of the Diaspora, Society, and Fight Against Antisemitism

Mr. Nahum Itzkovich
 Director General, Ministry of Welfare and Social Services 
 
Prof. Mooli Lahad 

School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Tel-Hai Academic College

open discussion 
  

09:45 -10:00 Mr. Eliyahu Yishai Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor 10:00 -11:00 The Economic Dimension

 Chair: Mr. Eli Hurvitz
 Chairman, Board of Directors, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries 
   
 Prof. Rafi Melnick
 Provost, IDC Herzliya 

Dr. Karnit Flug

 Director, Research Department, Bank of Israel  
   

Mr. Roni Bar-On

Minister of Finance  
open discussion 

T h e B a l a n c e o f I s r a e l ' s N a t i o n a l S e c u r i t y 11:15-12:45 Formal Opening

 Chair: Prof. Uzi Arad
Chairman, Herzliya Conference 
   
 Greetings:  Prof. Uriel Reichman
          President, IDC Herzliya 
          Ms. Yael German

` Mayor of Herzliya

  Mr. Shimon Peres
 President of the State of Israel 
  

The Balance of Israel's National Security and the 2009 "Herzliya Indices"

Prof. Rafi Melnick  
Provost, IDC Herzliya   
 
Prof. Gabriel Ben-Dor
Head, School of Political Sciences, Haifa University 
Maj. Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan
President, Sderot Conference for Society 2

13:30-15:00 The Negev as the New Frontier:

Re-prioritizing its Development
  
Chair: Amb. Ronald S. Lauder
President, World Jewish Congress 
 
Prof. Alex Mintz

Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

                           Prof. Avishay Braverman
                           Chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee 
 
Mr. Eitan Wertheimer
Chairman of the Board, "Daroma"   
 
Mr. Zeev Bielski 
Chairman of the Executive Jewish Agency for Israel and the WZO  
 

Mr. Ofer Isseroff

Director, "Daroma"; Regional Director, Jewish Agency for Israel 

open discussion

15:15-17:00 Perspectives on the Changing Global Landscape

 Chair: Sir Michael Pakenham  

Former Chairman of the UK Joint Intelligence Committee

Amb. Igor S. Neverov

Director, North American Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Prof. Brahma Chellaney 

Professor of Strategic Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

Amb. John Bolton

 Former US Ambassador to the United Nations  

Mr. Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff Senior Director for Policy Programs, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Amb. Zalman Shoval

Chairman, Friends of the Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Former Ambassador of Israel to the US open discussion

15:00-16:30 Are Mixed Cities the Face of the Future for Israel?

 Chair: Prof. Aliza Shenhar  
 President, Emek Yezreel College  
 
Mr. Amnon Be'eri-Sulitzeanu
 Co-Executive Director, Abraham Fund 
   
 Prof. Rassem Khamaisi

Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Haifa University

 Mr. Kamel Agbaria

Chairman, Neighborhood Committee, Jaffa Arab Quarter

 Mr. Shimon Gafsou
 Mayor, Nazareth-Ilit 
 
Prof. Amnon Rubinstein
IDC Herzliya 
  open discussion   

17:15-18:00 Prime Ministerial Candidate's "Herzliya Address"

                           Chair: Mr. Israel Makov

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Ms. Tzipi Livni  

Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs

18:00-19:30 Can European-Israeli Relations be Decoupled from the Palestinian Issue?

  Chair: Amb. Raphael Barak
Deputy Director General for Western Europe, Ministry of Foreign 
Affairs

Mr. Tomas Pojar Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic

Mr. Thomas Oppermann, MdB 
Deputy Chairman, SPD Parliamentary Group, Germany 
Dr. Liam Fox, MP 
 Shadow Defense Secretary, United Kingdom 
Amb. Avi Primor
Director, Center for European Studies, IDC, Herzliya 
 
Amb. Marc Otte

European Union Special Representative to the Middle East Peace Process

    open discussion

18:00-19:15 Multi-Faceted Jerusalem

Chair: Dr. Gavriel Barkay
 Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology,  
 Bar-Ilan University  

Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa Custos of the Holy Land

Prof. Yossi Shilhav  
 Department of Geography, Bar-Ilan University  
   
Dr. Dore Gold
President, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs 
   
 Mr. Hanna Siniora
 Co-CEO IPCRI 
     

open discussion

19:15-19:30 MK Avigdor Liberman

Chairman, Yisrael Beitenu  

20:30-22:30 Change of Guard and the Future of US World Leadership

Chair: Prof. Herbert London

 President, Hudson Institute 

Amb. John Bolton

 Former US Ambassador to the United Nations  

Mr. R. James Woolsey Venture Partner with VantagePoint; Former US Director of Central Intelligence

Mr. Richard Gordon
 President, American Jewish Congress  
 
Amb. Alfred H. Moses

Chair, UN Watch; Partner & Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP; Honorary President, American Jewish Committee

  open discussion 
 

Conversation between:

  Mr. Thomas L. Friedman  and Dr. Josef Joffe
New York Times Columnist     Editor-Publisher, Die Zeit

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08:15-10:00 Dealing with Asymmetric Islamic Terrorism

Chair:  Dr. John Chipman

Director General and Chief Executive, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

Prof. Brahma Chellaney 

Professor of Strategic Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

Dr. Jamie Patrick Shea  

Director, Policy Planning, Office of the Secretary General, NATO

Lt. Gen. (res.) Moshe (Bogie) Yaalon
Former IDF Chief of Staff  
Mr. Glenn Carle

Former US Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats

Mr. Matthew Mark Horn Co-Executive Director, American Jewish Congress

   open discussion 

10:00-11:30 Coping with Hamas: Lessons from Operation "Cast Lead"

  Chair: Prof. Martin Kramer

Senior Fellow, Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies, Shalem Center

Prof. Avraham Sela

Department of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

MK Brig. Gen. (res.) Effie Eitam Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Dr. Anat Kurtz Senior Research Associate, Institute for National Security Studies

   Col. (Res.) Daniel Reizner  

Former Head of the IDF International Law Department MK Dr. Yuval Steinitz

    Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee  

open discussion 11:45-13:15 Israel's Legitimacy under Attack – New Tools for Advocacy

  Chair: Mr.Gidi Mark  
                              C.E.O Taglit-Birthright Israel 
Mr. Isaac (Buji) Herzog

Minister of Welfare and Social Services and Minister of the Diaspora, Society, and Fight Against Antisemitism Mr. Ben-Dror Yemini

Maariv  
   
Dr. Boaz Mourad 

Insight Research Group

Prof. Leonard Saxe

Director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University

Amb. Ron Prossor

Ambassador of Israel to the UK

Mr. David Horovitz Editor-in-Chief, The Jerusalem Post

  open discussion

08:15-09:45 Why Do Israeli Students Fail? Can the Digital Revolution Change the Educational Reality?

Chair: Dr. Shimshon Shoshani
Former Director General of the Ministry of Education 
Ms. Gila Ben-Har
Director, Center for Educational Technology 
 
Mr. Yoram Yaacovi
CTO, Microsoft Israel Development Center 
 
Mr. Meir Brand
Google Israel Country Director 
  
Prof. Michal Yerushalmy
Faculty of Education, Haifa University 
 
Prof. Yuli Tamir  
Minister of Education  
  open discussion 

09:45-11:00 Economic Concepts for Higher Education

Chair: Mr. Dror Strum
President, The Israeli Institute for Economic Planning 
Dr. Yaacov Sheinin  
CEO, Economic Models 
Mr. Avraham Shochat  

Former Minister of Finance; Chairman of the Shochat Commission on Higher Education

Prof. Hagit Messer-Yaron
President, The Open University 
                          Maj. Gen. Avi Zamir 
Head of Personnel Branch, IDF

Prof. Yuli Tamir

Minister of Education  
   
  open discussion 

11:20-12:35 R&D National Policy: Higher Education – Moving from Basic Science to R&D

Chairs:  Prof. Oded Abramsky  

Chairman, National Council for Research and Civilian Development

Prof. Menahem Yaari President, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Moderator: Prof. Rivka Carmi

President, Ben-Gurion University

Mr. Guri Zilka

Advisor, National Council for Research and Development; Former Director of Council for Higher Education

Prof. Mina Teicher

Chair, National Committee for International R&D Relations, National Council for Research and Development Dr. Lea Nass

  Former Chair of the Science and Technology committee 
 
  open discussion     

14:00-15:15 Jumpstarting the Israeli-Palestinian Process: Economic Initiatives and Political Derivatives

 Chair: Sir Ronald Cohen  
 Chairman, The Portland Trust  
   
 Dr. Robert Danin

Head of Mission, Quartet Representative to the Middle East

Dr. Maher S. El-Kurd
 Chairman of the PLO Economic Committee  
  
Maj. Gen. (res.) Danny Rothschild
 President, Council for Peace and Security 

Amb. Irit Ben-Abba Deputy Director General for Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

 Dr. Shavit Matias
                           Deputy Attorney General, in charge of International Issues 
 

open discussion

15:30-17:00 A Matter of Historic Justice: Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries

                           Chair:  Dr. Avi Bitzur

Director General, Ministry for Pensioners' Affairs; Specialist for Home Front Defense, Bar-Ilan University

 Mr. Raffi Eitan  

Minister for Pensioners' Affairs, also in charge of Restitution of Jewish Rights and Assets

Ms. Rachel Machtiger 

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Atlantic Forum of Israel

 Dr. Zvi Zameret
Director, The Ben Zvi Institute 

Mr. Edwin Shuker President,Justice for Jews from Arab Countries

open discussion

13:20-14:45 From R&D to Commercial and Economic Application as Part of National Policy

Chairs:  Prof. Oded Abramsky  

Chairman, National Council for Research and Civilian Development

Prof. Menahem Yaari President, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Moderator: Prof. Leah Boehm  

Member, National Council for Research and Development; Chief Scientist, Israel Aerospace Industries

Prof. Moshe Oron

Chief Scientist, KiloLambda, National Council for Research and Development

Dr. Eli Opper
Chief Scientist, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor  
 
Prof. Zvi Eckstein
Deputy Governor, Bank of Israel 
 
Mr. Yigal Erlich

Deputy Chairman, National Council for Research and Civilian Development; President, Yozma

  open discussion
Mr. Ghaleb Majadle
Minister of Science, Culture and Sports   

15:00-16:30 Global Jewish Peoplehood: Metrics and Policies

 Chair: Mr. Leonid Nevzlin 
Chairman, Nadav Fund 
Prof.  Yoav Shoham
Stanford University  

Prof. Ephraim Ya'ar Head of the Program in Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Tel Aviv University Prof. Steven M. Cohen Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College

Dr. Shlomi Ravid Director, International School for Jewish Peoplehood Studies, Beit-Hatefutsot

                          Prof. Yehezkel Dror

Former Founding President, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute

                          Dr. Misha Galperin

Executive Vice President and CEO, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington

 Prof. Na'ama Sabar Ben-Yehoshua

Head of the unit for Jewish peopelhood studies, School of Education, Tel Aviv University

                            open discussion

17:15-18:00 Prime Ministerial Candidate's "Herzliya Address"

Chair: Prof. Alex Mintz

Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC

Lt. Gen. (res.) Ehud Barak

Minister of Defense and Former Prime Minister

18:00-19:30 The Syrian Tier and Regional Statecraft

 Chair: Dr. Israel Elad-Altman 

Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Maj. Gen. (res.) Dani Yatom  
 Former Head of the Mossad   
Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland

Former Head of the National Security Council

Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror

Deputy President, Lander Institute

Dr. Shmuel Bar 

Director of Studies, The Institute of Policy and Strategy, IDC, Herzliya

Dr. Dan Schueftan

Deputy Director, National Security Studies Centre, Haifa University Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Gilead

Head, Politico-Military Bureau, Ministry of Defense  
 

open discussion 18:00-19:30 National Sustainability and Israel's Green Safety Net

 Chair: Mr. Effi Stenzler
 Chairman of the Board, Jewish National Fund 

Prof. Uri Shani Director, Water Authority

Prof. Yakov Karni
CTO, HelioFocus Ltd. 
Prof. Yael Moriah
Faculty of Architecture, The Technion Institute 
Mr Shamai Assif
Head of the Planning Administration, Ministry of Interior 
 
  open discussion

20:30-22:00 Europe on the World Stage

Chair: Amb. Michael Zantovsky Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Israel

President José María Aznar
Former Prime Minister of Spain  
Dr. John Chipman

Director General and Chief Executive, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)

Dr. Josef Joffe

Editor-Publisher, Die Zeit

   open discussion

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T h e D a v i d S l i n g P r o j e c t

8:15-10:15 Iran on the Nuclear Threshold – Feasability of Prevention and of Deterrence

 Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) David Ivry  

President, Boeing Israel; Former Head of the National Security Council

 Prof. Scott Sagan

Co-Director, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University

Amb. Yossi Gal
Senior Deputy Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs  
  
Dr. Bruno Tertrais

Senior Research Fellow, Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique (FRS)

Dr. Michael Makovsky  
Foreign Policy Director, Bipartisan Policy Center 
   

MK Gen. (res.) Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel

    Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee  
  open discussion
 

10:30-12:15 Nuclear Proliferation and Arms Control Initiatives

  Chair: Dr. Ariel Levite
 Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 
    
Mr. Jonathan S. Paris
Adjunct Fellow, Hudson Institute  
 

Dr. Oded Brosh Senior Research Fellow, The Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC, Herzliya

Mr. Sverre Lodgaard  

Senior Research Fellow, NUPI and former Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin

Principal Researcher, IMEMO, Russian Academy of Sciences Amb. David Danieli Deputy Director General for Policy, Israel Atomic Energy Commission

open discussion

8:15-10:00 Energy, Security and Global Geopolitics

 Chair: Dr. Sass Somekh
Founder, Musea Ventures 
   
 Dr. Ed Morse  
 Managing Director and Chief Economist, LCM Commodities 
   
Mr. R. James Woolsey

Venture Partner with VantagePoint; Former US Director of Central Intelligence

Dr. Jamie Patrick Shea  

Director, Policy Planning, Office of the Secretary General, NATO

Dr. Brenda Shaffer
Energy Management and Policy Program, University of Haifa  
Dr. David Wurmser 

Director, Delphi Global Analysis; Former Senior Advisor on National Security Affairs to the US Vice President

Mr. Yossie Hollander
     Chairman, The Institute for Israeli Economic Planning  

open discussion

10:30-12:15 The World Economic Crisis: Recalibrating Financial Risk Management and Regulation

 Chair: Mr. L. Jack Staley
 President, Stanford Group (Suisse) 
   
 Prof. Jacob Frenkel

Former Governor of the Bank of Israel; Chairman, Group of Thirty (G-30); Vice Chairman, American International Group (AIG)

Mr. Michael G. Oxley  

Vice Chairman, NASDAQ Stock Market; Former Chairman of the US House of Representatives' Financial Services Committee

Dr. Stephen J. Canner Vice President, Investment and Financial Services, US Council for International Business

Ms. Joanne Thornton Senior Vice President, Policy Research, Stanford Group Company

open discussion

13:00-14:30 Israel's Financial Governance: Recalibrating Financial Risk Management and Regulation Chair: Mr. Shlomo Zohar

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Discount Bank 
Prof. Amir Barnea
Arison School of Business, IDC Herzliya 
Mr. Rony Hizkiyahu
Supervisor of the Banks, Bank of Israel 
Mr. Yadin Antebi

Commissioner of Capital Markets, Insurance and Savings, Ministry of Finance

Mr. Zvi Ziv
CEO, Bank Hapoalim  
Mr. Zvi Lubetzky 
Chairman, IBI Investments House 
 
    
    open discussion
 
     

14:45-17:00 Weathering the Storm: Israel and the World Economic Crisis

 Chair: Mr. Yossie Hollander
 Chairman, The Institute for Israeli Economic Planning 
  
Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg
Head of the National Economic Council, Prime Minister's Office
 
Dr. Yaacov Sheinin
 CEO, Economic Models  
       
Prof. Avishay Braverman
 Chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee 

Mr. Yarom Ariav Director General, Minister of Finance

Mr. Israel Makov

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Mr. Gidi Grinstein
President, Reut Institute 

open discussion

Prof. Stanley Fischer
 Governor, Bank of Israel 

13:00-14:45 Risk Sharing: Bolstering Israel's Strategic Partnerships

Chair: Amb. Dr. Oded Eran Director, Institute for National Security Studies; Atlantic Forum of Israel

Dr. Bruno Tertrais Senior Research Fellow, Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique, (FRS)

Mr. Christian Schmidt, MdB Parliamentary State Secretary Federal Ministry for Defense, Germany

Mr. Ralf Fuecks

President, Heinrich Boll Foundation

Mr. Rafael Bardají Director of International Policy, FAES Fundacion Mr Tommy Steiner Senior Research Fellow , The Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC, Herzliya open discussion

Lt. Gen. (res.) Shaul Mofaz Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Transport and Road Safety; Responsible for the Strategic Dialogue

15:00-16:30 Passive and Active Defense Options to Cope with Strategic Threats

Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) Herzle Bodinger

Chairman of the Board, IMDA; Former Commander of the Israeli 

Air Force

 Mr Uzi Rubin
CEO, Rubinkon 
Brig. Gen. (res.) Yair Dori
Former Commander, Anti-Aircraft Warfare  
Mr. Michael D. Brown 

Former US Under Secretary of Homeland Security, Emergency Preparedness and Response Dr. Avi Bitzur Director General, Ministry for Pensioners' Affairs; Specialist for Home Front Defense, Bar-Ilan University Dr. Max Singer Senior Research Fellow, BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University

Maj. Gen. (res.) Matan Vilnai  

Deputy Minister of Defense

   open discussion

17:00-17:45 Prime Ministerial Candidate's "Herzliya Address"

Chair: Amb. Zalman Shoval

Chairman, Friends of the Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Former Ambassador of Israel to the US

Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu

Head of the Opposition and Former Prime Minister 

18:00-19:30 Reconnecting Israel with its Expatriates Chair: MK Brig. Gen. (Res.) Amira Dotan Chairperson, Subcommittee for Foreign Affairs and Public Diplomacy

Mr. Erez Halfon
Director General, Ministry of Immigrant Absorption

Prof. Zaki Shalom The Zionist Council In Israel Ms. Shulamit Aloni Former Minister of Education and Culture Prof. Moshe Oron Chief Scientist, KiloLambd; National Council for Research and Development

MK Avshalom (Abu) Vilan Member, Internal Affairs and Environment Committee Mr. Mano Geva CEO, Midgam Research and Consulting; Chairman of Israel Research Institues Association open discussion

18:00-19:30 The Imperative for Government Reform

 Chair: Gad Zeevi
 CEO, Japan Auto 
   
 Prof. Uriel Reichman  
 Founder and President, IDC Herzliya 
Mr. Dror Strum  
 President, The Israeli Institute for Economic Planning   
    
Mr. Haim Ramon
 Vice Premier and Minister in the Prime Minister's Office  
 
MK Gideon Sa'ar
Chairman, Likud Parliamentary Group 
 
Mr Raanan Dinur
Director General, Prime Minister's Office 
 
Mr. Sami Friedrich  
Chairman, Shaldor Inc. 
 
  open discussion

20:15-22:00 Concluding Session

Chair: Prof. Uriel Reichman 
Founder and President, IDC Herzliya  
Amb. Ronald S. Lauder
President, World Jewish Congress 
 
Prof. Uzi Arad

Chairman, Herzliya Conference Prof. Shlomo Ben-Ami

  IDC Herzliya 
 
Prof. Ruth Gavison 
Founding President, Metzilah Center