Sixth Herzliya Conference

The Sixth Herzliya Conference on "The Balance of Israel’s National Security" was held on January 21-24, 2006 at the Daniel Hotel, Herzliya, Israel.

Program

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Greetings:

• Yael German, Mayor of Herzliya

'Opening Remarks: National Resilience in the Face of Risks and Opportunities

• Prof. Uzi Arad, Chair, Herzliya Conference; Head, Institute for Policy and Strategy

Assessing Israel's National Security and the “Herzliya Indices 2006”

• Chair: Israel Trau, Assistant General Manager, First International Bank of Israel
• Prof. Rafi Melnick, Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
• Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, Head of the National Security Council
• Prof. Gabriel Ben-Dor, Director, National Security Studies Center, University of Haifa

Discussion

• Lt. Gen. (res.) Shaul Mofaz, Minister of Defense

20:00 Dinner

Opening Ceremony

• Chair: Prof. Uriel Reichman, President, IDC Herzliya
• Prof. Israel (Robert) J. Aumann, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics; Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Prof. Haim Harari, Chairman of the Board, Davidson Institute for Science Education, Weizmann Institute

Sunday, January 22, 2006

08:00 Morning Sessions

National Security Policy as Risk Management

• Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) Eitan Ben-Eliyahu, CEO, Sentry Technology Group
• Prof. Paul R. Kleindorfer, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Prof. Paul Bracken, School of Management and Department of Political Science, Yale University

Discussion

Strategic Trends on the Global Landscape

• Chair: Prof. Jerry (Yoram) Wind, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Stanley Roth, Vice President for Asia, International Relations, Boeing Company
• Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Dr. Robert Trice, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Prof. Jacob Frenkel, Vice Chairman, AIG and Former Governor of the Bank of Israel

Discussion Discussants:

• Dr. Dan Schueftan, Deputy Director, National Security Studies Center, University of Haifa
• Dr. Shmuel Bar, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
• Lt. Gen. Dan Haloutz, Chief of General Staff, IDF

Break

The Nuclearization of Iran – Strategic Implications

• Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) David Ivry, Chairman, Board of Directors, Fisher Brothers Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies
• Philippe Errera, Directeur adjoint, Centre d’Analyse et de Prיvision, Ministטre des Affaires Etrangטres, France
• Sir Michael Quinlan, Consulting Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Maj. Gen. (res.) Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel, Head, Security Studies Program, Tel Aviv University

Discussion Discussants:

• MK Dr. Ephraim Sneh, Chairman, Subcommittee for Defense Doctrine, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee
• MK Prof. Arieh Eldad, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee
• MK Dr. Yuval Steinitz, Chairman, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

Lunch

14:00 Afternoon Sessions

• Amb. Ron Prosor, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• MK Silvan Shalom, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

Israel’s Standing in Europe and Future Relations with the EU and NATO

• Chair: Amb. Dr. Oded Eran, Ambassador, Head of Mission of Israel to the EU
• Dr. Josef Joffe, Herausgeber/Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit, Germany
• Ana Palacio, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain and Chair of the Joint Committee on European Affairs, Parliament of Spain
• General the Lord Charles Guthrie of Craigiebank, GCB, LVO, OBE
• Dr. Kenneth R. Weinstein, CEO, Hudson Institute

Discussion

• Discussant: Col. (res.) Uri Naaman, Coordinator for NATO and European Defense Organizations, Political-Military Bureau, Ministry of Defense

Break

Israel’s Standing in the United States and Future Israeli-American Relations

• Chair: Amb. Zalman Shoval, Chairman, Board of Directors, Export Investment Corp., Ltd.
• Mortimer Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor in Chief, U.S. News and World Report
• Dr. Frank Luntz, Consultant, The Israel Project
• Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, President, The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (HaKeren L’yedidut Israel)
• Dr. Boaz Mourad, Brand Israel Group
• Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman, The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
• Dr. Robert Danin, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, US State Department

Discussion Discussant: Col. (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman, Director, Israel and Middle East Office, American Jewish Committee

20:00 Dinner

• MK Benjamin Netanyahu, Chairman of the Likud Party
• Prof. Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School
• Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister of Sweden

Monday, January 23, 2006

08:00 Morning Sessions

An Atlas of Road Maps and Options for the Israeli-Arab Process

• Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) Ilan Biran
• Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Gilead, Director, Political-Military Bureau, Ministry of Defense
• Bentzi Lieberman, Chairman of the Board, Yesha Council and Head of the Samaria Regional Council
• Jacob Keidar, Director, Multilateral Peace Talks Coordination Department and Water Issues, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

• Chair: Prof. Uriel Reichman, President, IDC Herzliya
• Jimmy Carter, Former President of the United States
• Dr. Robert Satloff, Executive Director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Danielle Pletka, Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Discussion Discussants:

• Brig. Gen. Michael Herzog, Visiting Military Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• Amb. Dr. Daniel C. Kurtzer, Visiting Professor of Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
• Eyal Megged, Author

Break

Defensible Borders for Israel

• Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, Head of the Defensible Borders Project and the Institute for Contemporary Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
• Lt. Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya’alon, Former Chief of General Staff, IDF
• Amb. Dr. Dore Gold, President, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Discussion Discussant: Brig. Gen. (res.) Oded Tyrah, President, Phoenicia America-Israel

Defensible Borders for Israel (sic)

• Gideon Grinstein, Founder and President, The Re’ut Institute
• Prof. Gideon Biger, Department of Geography, Tel Aviv University
• Prof. David Newman, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• MK Dr. Ahmad Tibi, Knesset Economics Committee

Discussion Discussants:

• Bennett Zimmerman, Project Leader, “Arab Population in the West Bank and Gaza: The Million Person Gap”
• Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt

Lunch

• Chair: Poju Zabludowicz, Chairman and CEO, Tamares Group
• Tzipi Livni, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Justice and Minister of Immigrant Absorption

14:00 Afternoon Sessions

Jerusalem - The Capital of Israel and the Jewish People

• Chair: Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
• Prof. Ruth Lapidoth, The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies
• Israel Kimchi, The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies
• Nir Barkat, Council Member, Municipality of Jerusalem
• Eitan Meir, Director General, Municipality of Jerusalem

Discussion Discussants:

• Dan Halperin, CEO, IFTIC
• Dr. Moshe Amirav, Head of Public Policy Studies, Beit Berl College

The Galilee - A National Priority and Challenge

• Chair: Yehiel Leket, World Chairman, Hakeren Kayemet L’Yisrael, Jewish National Fund
• Amb. Prof. Aliza Shenhar, President, Emek Yezreel College
• Brig. Gen. (res.) Eival Gilady, Chairman, Western Galilee College
• Efrat Duvdevani, Director, Ministry for the Development of the Negev and Galilee
• Dr. Faisal Azaiza, Head, Jewish-Arab Center, Haifa University; Head, The Gustav Heinemann Institute for Middle Eastern Studies
• Shlomo Bohbot, Mayor, Maalot-Tarshicha
• Ehud Prawer, National Security Council

Discussion Discussant: Prof. Alean Al-Krenawi, Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University Break

The Viability of Democracy: The Rule of Law and the Rulers’ Law

• Chair: Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, Provost, IDC Herzliya
• Adv. Elie Goldschmidt, Israel Corp.
• Shelly Yechimovitch
• MK Gideon Sa’ar, Likud Parliamentary Group Chairman
• MK Yossi Sarid, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

Discussion

Law Enforcement: Putting Democracy to the Test

• Chair: Prof. Moshe Barniv, Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya
• Dan Margalit, Ma’ariv
• Justice Micha Lindenstrauss, State Comptroller and Ombudsman
• Commissioner Moshe Karadi, Inspector General, Israel Police
• MK Michael Eitan, Chairman, Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee

Discussion

• Amb. John R. Bolton, Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations (via video conference)

20:00 Dinner

• Chair: Alan B. Slifka, Founder and Chairman, The Abraham Fund
• MK Amir Peretz, Chairman of the Labor Party
• Chair: Hermann Bünz, Director, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Israel Office
• Laurent Fabius, Former Prime Minister of France

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

08:00 Morning Sessions Social Policy and Economic Growth

• Chair: Prof. Amir Barnea, Founding Dean, Arison School of Business, IDC Herzliya
• Dr. Karnit Flug, Director of Research, Bank of Israel
• Prof. Arie Arnon, Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Director, Center for Employment Policy, Hudson Institute
• Daniel Doron, Director, Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress

Discussion

• Prof. Yehezkel Dror, Founding President, Jewish People Policy Institute

Discussion

The Socio-Economic Interface: Sectors, Initiatives and Policy

• Chair: Yossi Rosen, President and CEO, Israel Corp.
• Itsik Danziger, Chairman, Education Initiative in the Galilee, IVN
• Prof. Ezra Sadan, Managing Partner, Sadan-Lowenthal, Ltd.
• Dr. Aziz Haidar, Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Sir Ronald Cohen, Chairman, The Portland Trust

Discussion

Break

Investment to Spur Economic Growth and Reduce Poverty

• Chair: Yossi Hollander, Chairman, Jacada
• Prof. Stanley Fischer, Governor, Bank of Israel
• Dr. Yacov Sheinin, CEO, Economic Models
• Prof. Sean Barrett, Trinity College, Dublin

Discussion

• Discussant: Shraga Brosh, President, Manufacturers Association of Israel

Lunch

• Lord George Weidenfeld of Chelsea, Weidenfeld & Nicholson

14:00 Afternoon Sessions

Patriotism and National Security in Israel

• Chair: Prof. Uzi Arad
• Prof. Herbert London, President, Hudson Institute
• Prof. Ephraim Yaar, Head, Evens Program in Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Tel Aviv University
• MK Prof. Yael (Yuli) Tamir, Department of Philosophy and School of Education, Tel Aviv University
• Dr. Eilat Mazar, Institute of Archeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Discussion Discussants:

• Col. (res). Ahuva Yanai, Executive Director, Matan
• Ari Shavit, Ha’aretz

Judaism as Culture in the Age of Globalization

• Chair: Prof. Moshe Kaveh, President, Bar-Ilan University
• Prof. Menachem Brinker, Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Prof. James Young, Chair, Department of Judaic and Near East Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Discussion Discussant: Prof. Benjamin Ish-Shalom, Rector, Beit Morasha of Jerusalem: The Academic Center for Jewish Studies and Leadership

• Chair: Felix Posen, Founder and President, Posen Foundation
• Prof. A. B. Yehoshua, Author
• Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Yad Vashem

Discussion

The Jewish World in 2025

• Chair: Zeev Bielski, Chairman of the Executive, The Jewish Agency for Israel and the World Zionist Organization
• Prof. Alan Dershowitz
• Amb. Dr. Dennis Ross, Chairman, Jewish People Policy Institute

Discussion

The Diaspora Communities and Israel

• Chair: Shula Bahat, Associate Executive Director, American Jewish Committee
• Arcadi Gaydamak, President, Congress of Jewish Communities of Russia
• Prof. Yedidya Stern, World Jewish Forum
• Dr. Colin Rubenstein, Executive Director, The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council

Discussion Discussant: Avinoam Bar-Yosef, Director General, Jewish People Policy Institute

Summary: Policy Challenges - Invigorating the Jewish; Democratic; State

• Prof. Uzi Arad

19:30 Dinner

The “Herzliya Address”

• Chair: Prof. Uriel Reichman
• Ehud Olmert, Acting Prime Minister; Minister of Finance; Minister of Industry, Trade and Employment

Closing:

• Prof. Uzi Arad

External resources

• Jonathan Cook, Herzliya Conference reveals Israeli plans after disengagement, Electronic Intifada, 27 January 2006.