Ninth Herzliya Conference

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The Ninth Herzliya Conference took place at the IDC Herzliya on 2-4 February 2009.[1]

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

open discussion

The Balance of Israel' s National Security 11:15-12:45 Formal Opening

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

13:30-15:00 The Negev as the New Frontier: Re-prioritizing its Development

open discussion

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

open discussion

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

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

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

open discussion

Conversation between:

Tuesday , February 3, 2009

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

Threats

open discussion

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

open discussion

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

open discussion

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

open discussion

09:45-11:00 Economic Concepts for Higher 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

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

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

open discussion

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

open discussion

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

open discussion

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The David Sling Project

8:15-10:15 Iran on the Nuclear ThresholdFeasability of Prevention and of Deterrence

open discussion

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

open discussion

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

open discussion

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

open discussion

13:00-14:30 Israel's Financial Governance: Recalibrating Financial Risk Management and Regulation

open discussion

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

open discussion

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

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

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

open discussion

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

open discussion

20:15-22:00 Concluding Session

Notes

  1. Conference Conclusions: The Ninth Herzliya Conference, Institute for Policy and Strategy, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, p.58.
  2. Program, the 9th Herzliya Conference 2009, herzliyaconference.org, accessed 21 May 2012.