Tenth Annual Herzliya Conference

The Tenth Annual Herzliya Conference was held at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel on 31 January - 3 February 2010.

Program

31 January 2010

Opening Session: The Balance of Israel's National Security

• Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) Danny Rothschild, Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy; Chair, Annual Herzliya Conference Series
• Dr. Uzi Arad, National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister; Chairman, National Security Council, Prime Minister's Office
• Maj. Gen. Benjamin (Benny) Gantz, Deputy Chief of Staff, IDF
• Amb. Yossi Gal, Director-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• MK Isaac Herzog, Minister of Social Affairs and Social Services

Herzliya Indices

• Prof. Rafi Melnick, Provost, IDC Herzliya
• Prof. Gabriel Ben-Dor, Haifa University
• Concluding Address: Prof. Uriel Reichman, President, IDC Herzliya

Inaugural Ceremony

• Chair: Prof. Uriel Reichman, President, IDC Herzliya
• Greetings: Ms. Yael German, Mayor of Herzliya
• Prof. Alex Mintz, Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
• Keynote Address: Dr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• Concluding Remarks: Prof. Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel

Opening Reception

• Greetings: Mr. Richard D. Heideman, Chairman, International Advisory Board of the Herzliya Conference

1 February 2010

Still Special? US-Israel Relations

• MK Tzipi Livni, Head of the Opposition; Fmr. Minister of Foreign Affairs
• MK Daniel Ayalon, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
• H.E. James B. Cunningham, Ambassador of the United States to Israel
• Amb. Alfred Moses, Chairman, UN Watch
• Mr. Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
• Moderator: Aluf Benn, Haaretz

Winning the Battle of the Narrative: Strategic Communication for Israel

• Mr. Martin Kace, President, Empax
• Dr. Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit
• Mr. Ido Aharoni, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Mr. Eyal Arad, Chairman and Founding Partner, Euro RSCG Israel Group
• Moderator: Mr. Goor Tsalalyachin, King's College London

Israel and the OECD: Benefits and Costs

• MK Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, Minister of Industry, Trade, and Labor
• Mr. Nicola Bonucci, Director for Legal Affairs, OECD
• Mr. Dan Catarivas, Director, Division of Foreign Trade and International Relations, Manufacturers' Association of Israel
• Mr. Dror Strum, President, The Israeli Institute for Economic Planning
• Dr. Yossi Inbar, Director-General, Ministry of Environmental Protection
• Amb. Irit Ben-Abba, Deputy Director-General for Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Moderator: Ms. Nehama Ronen, Fmr. Director-General, Ministry of Environmental Protection

Security, Economy, and the Peace Process

• Sir Ronald Cohen, Chairman, The Portland Trust
• Ms. Valerie Hoffenberg, Special Representative for the Economic,

Cultural, Commercial, Educational, and Environmental Dimensions of the Middle East Peace Process, France

• Mr. Yaacov Peri, Chairman, Mizrahi-Tfahot Bank and Former Head of the Israel Security Agency
• Mr. Sharon Kedmi, Director-General, Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Employment
• Mr. Yosef Maiman, President, Merhav Group
• Moderator: Brig. Gen. (res.) Eival Giladi, Director, Portland Trust Israel
• MK Silvan Shalom, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Cooperation

Israel's Next Engine of Growth? Green Economy and Cleantech

• MK Gilad Erdan, Minister of Environmental Protection
• Mr. Martin Kace, President, Empax
• Prof. Leah Boehm, Member, National Council for Research and Development; Chief Scientist, Israel Aerospace Industries
• Mr. Peter L. Corsell, CEO, Gridpoint Inc.; Fmr. Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Council on Sustainable Energy
• Mr. John (Ionannis) Antoniadis, CEO, Rosebud Energie Deutschland GmbH
• Moderator: Dr. Isaac Berzin, Founding Director, Institute for Renewable Energy Policy, IDC Herzliya

Winning the Battle of the Narrative: Getting the Message Out

• Dr. Noam Lemelshtrich Latar, Founding Dean, Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC Herzliya
• Amb. Ron Prosor, Ambassador of Israel to the UK
• Mr. Yarden Vatikai, Director of National Information, Prime Minister's Office
• Mr. Gidi Grinstein, President and Founder, Reut Institute
• Mr. Lior Chorev, Founding Partner, Euro RSCG Israel Group
• Ms. Lorna Fitzsimons, CEO, BICOM
• Moderator: Mr. Menashe Raz, Channel 1, IBA

Prospects of Peace: The Regional Dimension

• MK Lt. Gen. (res.) Shaul Mofaz, Former Minister of Defense; Kadima Party
• Prof. Amb. Daniel C. Kurtzer, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
• Mr. Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
• Dr. Dan Schueftan, Director, National Security Studies Center, University of Haifa
• Maj. Gen. (res.) Danny Rothschild, Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Chair, Annual Herzliya Conference Series
• Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Gilead, Head, Political-Military Branch, Ministry of Defense
• Moderator: Mr. Raviv Druker, Channel 10
• MK Dan Meridor, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy

Primus inter Pares? The US and the Global Order

• Hon. Ferenc Gyurcsány, Fmr. Prime Minister of Hungary
• Amb. Dr. Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
• Amb. Igor Neverov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Sweden
• Amb. Yoshiji Nogami, President, Japan Institute of International Affairs
• Prof. Shlomo Avineri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Fmr. Director-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Moderator: Dr. Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit; Hoover Institute, Stanford University
• Hon. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Leader of the Opposition, Germany; Fmr. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany

Climate Change – The Global Challenge

• Chair: Mr. Israel Makov, Chairman of the Board, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
• Prof. Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Laureate

Emerging from the Crisis? Challenges to the Global Economy

• Prof. Jacob Frenkel, Chairman, JPMorgan Chase International; Chairman, Group of Thirty (G-30); Fmr. Governor of the Bank of Israel
• Mr. Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News & World Report
• Dr. Joseph Bachar, Chairman, Board of Directors, Bank Discount
• Moderator: Mr. Sever Plotzker, Yediot Ahronot

2 February 2010

Teaching Jewish Identity and Heritage

• Rabbi Aryeh Deri
• MK Prof. Yuli Tamir, Fmr. Minister of Education
• Maj. Gen. (res.) Elazar Stern, CEO, Genesis Foundation
• Moderator: Mr. Menashe Raz, Channel 1, IBA

Gas or Nuclear: Israel's Electricity Market 2025

• Mr. Shaul Tzemach, Director General, Ministry of National Infrastructure
• Mr. Amos Lasker, CEO, Israel Electric Corporation Ltd
• Brig. Gen. (res.) Uzi Eilam, Member, National Council for Research and Development; Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies
• Mr. Gideon Tadmor, CEO, Delek Energy
• Dr. Steven W. Popper, Senior Economist, RAND
• Moderator: Yehezkel Kugler, President, Kugler Development & Investments Ltd.

Breaking the Global Oil Addiction: Alternative Sources for Fueling Transportation

• Mr. R. James Woolsey, Venture Partner, VantagePoint Venture Partners; Fmr. Director of the [CIA]]
• Mr. Yossie Hollander, Chairman, The Israeli Institute for Economic Planning
• Dr. Paul Werbos, Program Director, US National Science Foundation
• Moderator: Mr. Guy Rolnick, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, The Marker; Deputy Publisher, Haaretz

Investing in Future Growth: Israel's Civilian R&D Infrastructures

• Prof. Oded Abramsky, Chairman, National Council for Research and Development
• Prof. Hermona Soreq, Member, National Council for Research and Development; Faculty of Science, Hebrew University
• Prof. Moshe Oron, Member, National Council for Research and Development; Chief Scientist, KiloLambda Technologies
• Prof. Yadin Dudai, Member, National Council for Research and Development; Weizmann Institute for Science
• Prof. Mina Teicher, Member, National Council for Research and Development; Department of Mathematics and Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University
• Prof. David Horn, Member, National Council for Research and Development; School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
• Moderator: Dr. Yitzhak Noy, Israel Radio
• MK Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz, Minister of Science and Technology

Breaking the Global Oil Addiction: Israel's Role

• Dr. Gal Luft, Executive Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
• Prof. Eugene Kandel, Head, National Economic Council, The Prime Minister's Office
• Mr. Lucien Yehuda Bronicki, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Ormat Technologies Inc.
• Prof. Moti Herskowitz, Vice-President and Dean for R&D, Ben Gurion

University of the Negev

• Dr. Orna Berry, Venture Partner, Gemini Israel
• Moderator: Mr. Yossie Hollander, President, Israeli Institute for Economic Planning
• MK Dr. Uzi Landau, Minister of National Infrastructures

Israel's National Education and School System: Preparing the Next Generation for the 21st Century

• Mr. Shraga Brosh, President, Manufacturers' Association of Israel
• Ms. Maxine Fassberg, General-Manager, Intel Israel
• Ms. Gila Ben-Har, Director, Center for Educational Technology
• Brig. Gen. (res.) Yakov Nagel, Deputy Head, R&D Directorate, Ministry of Defense
• Mr. Haim Rousso, Member, National Council for Research and Development; Executive Vice President for Engineering and Technology Excellence, Elbit Systems
• Moderator: Prof. Nimrod Aloni, Head of the Institute for Educational Thought, Seminar Hakibutzim College
• MK Gideon Sa'ar, Minister of Education

The Quest for Effective Governance

• Mr. Eyal Gabbai, General-Director, Prime Minister's Office
• MK Yariv Levin, Chairman, Knesset House Committee
• Judge Mishael Cheshin, Justice (ret.), Israel Supreme Court
• Mr. Isaac Devash, Co-founder, Atidim – Cadets for Public Sector
• Prof. Suzie Navot, School of Law, College of Management Academic Studies
• Prof. David H. Rosenbloom, Chair Professor of Public Management, City University of Hong Kong
• Moderator: Mr. Dror Strum, President, The Israeli Institute for Economic Planning

Elderly Population in Israel: Social and Welfare Policy Dilemmas

• Opening Remarks: Mr. Chaim Topol, Actor
• Prof. Arie Rimmerman, School of Social Work, Haifa University
• Prof. Jack Habib, Brookdale Institute
• Mr. Moti Vinter, Deputy Director, Ministry of Welfare and Social Services
• Mr. Avigdor Kaplan, Chairman of the Association of Life Insurance Companies of Israel Ltd; CEO, Klal Insurance
• Mr. Aharon Azulay, Director-General, Ministry for Senior Citizens
• Moderator: Prof. Jacob Gindin, University of Haifa; Clalit Health Services
• MK Dr. Lea Nass, Deputy Minister, Ministry for Senior Citizens

Europe's Role on the World Stage and in the Middle East

• Hon. Dr. Martin Barták, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Czech Republic
• Hon. Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain
• Moderator: Mr. Tommy Steiner, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Economic Development of the Israeli Arab Communities

• MK Dr. Ahmad Tibi, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset
• Mr. Ayman Saif, Director, Economic Development Authority in the Minority

Sector, Prime Minister's Office

• Mr. Samer Nachleh, Owner, Nachleh Coffee
• Mr. Inas Said, CEO, Galil Software
• Dr. Yaacov Sheinin, Founding CEO, Economic Models
• Mr. Dov Lautman, Chairman, Advisory Council of the Authority for Economic Development in the Minorities Sector
• Moderator: Nadav Peri, Channel 10
• MK Prof. Avishay Braverman, Minister of Minority Affairs

Realigning Government, Business, and Civil Society: Competition or Partnership?

• Mr. Nachum Itzkovitz, Director-General, Ministry of Social

Affairs and Social Services

• Mr. Gil-Ad Harish, Director and Founder, La'Sova
• Mr. Elie Elalouf, General Director, Rashi Foundation
• Mr. Zvi Ziv, Fmr. CEO of Bank Hapoalim; Chairman, Ma'alah
• Mr. Israel Makov, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Institute for Policy and Strategy
• Moderator: Ms. Ruth Sinai, Commentator on Social Affairs
• Dr. Arthur C. Brooks, President, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

The Presidential Address

• Chairman: Mr. Harvey Krueger, Vice Chairman, Barclays Capital
• H.E. Shimon Peres, President of the State of Israel

US-Europe-Israeli Trilateral Relationship: The Strategic Dimension

• Dr. Christian Schmidt, MdB, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Defense, Germany
• Dr. Ronald D. Asmus, Executive Director, Transatlantic Center and Strategic Planning, German Marshall Fund of the US
• Gen. Klaus Naumann, Fmr. Chairman, North Atlantic Military Committee
• Amb. Ran Curiel, Head of Mission to the European Union and NATO
• Lt. Gen. (ret.) Dennis Cavin, Vice President of Air and Missile Defense Strategic Initiatives, Lockheed Martin
• Moderator: Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the US

Prospects of Peace: The Israeli-Palestinian Track

• Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) Danny Rothschild, Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Chair, Annual Herzliya Conference Series
• MK Lt. Gen. (res.) Ehud Barak, Minister of Defense
• H.E. Dr. Salam Fayyad, Prime Minister, Palestinian Authority

The Community Front: An Integrated Approach to Personal Security

• Police Commissioner Raymond Walter Kelly, Police Commissioner NYPD
• Commissioner Dudi Cohen, Inspector General, Israel Police
• Mr. Aharon Abramowicz, Fmr. Director-General of the Ministry of Justice
• Mr. Hagai Peleg, Director-General, Ministry of Public Security
• Police Maj. Gen. Yoav Segalovitz, Head, Investigation and Intelligence

Division

• Ms. Rachel Sharvit, Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services
• Mr. Yaacov Hecht, Director, Institute for Democratic Education
• Moderator: Dr. Ilana Dayan, Channel 2

The US and the Arch of Instability: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq

• Dr. Colin Kahl, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East
• Dr. Kori Schake, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
• Brig. Gen. (res.) Yosef Kuperwasser, Deputy Director General, Ministry of Strategic Affairs
• Mr. Elmar Brok, MEP, Chairman, European Parliament Delegation for Relations with the United States
• Moderator: Dr. Neil Livingstone, Chairman and CEO, ExecutiveAction LLC

Domestic Political Dynamics and Stability in the Middle East

• Ms. Roya Hakakian, Author
• Prof. David Menashri, Dean of Special Programs; Head, The Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University
• Dr. Israel Elad Altman, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
• Ms. Judith Miller, City Journal
• Mr. Zvi Yehezkeli, Channel 10
• Moderator: Prof. Shelly Deane, Bowdoin College

'The 20th Anniversary of the Immigration of the Soviet Jewry to Israel: Lessons and Current Challenges

• MK Sofa Landver, Minister of Immigrant Absorption
• Dr. Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Immigrant Absorption
• Mr. Yaakov Hain, Deputy CEO, Israeli Electric Corporation
• Prof. Mikhail Chlenov, Secretary General, Euro-Asian Jewish Congress
• Ms. Naomi Ben-Ami, Head of Nativ, Prime Minister's Office
• Mr. Mark Meirson, RTBI
• Moderator: Ms. Dorit Golender, Ambassador-Designate to the Russian Federation

Rising to the Challenge of Radical Indoctrination

• Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, Shadow Security Minister, House of Lords
• Prof. Martin Kramer, Senior Fellow, Shalem Center; National Security Studies

Program, Harvard University

• Mr. Matthew Sinclair, Research Director, TaxPayers' Alliance
• Dr. Rami Nasrallah, International Peace and Cooperation Center
• Moderator: Dr. Shmuel Bar, Director of Studies, Institute for Policy and

Strategy, IDC Herzliya

• President José María Aznar, Fmr. Prime Minister of Spain; President,

Foundation for Social Studies and Analysis

Civil Preparedness in the Israeli Home Front: the Role of the Civil Society

• MK Maj. Gen. (res.) Matan Vilnai, Deputy Minister of Defense
• Mr. Gidi Grinstein, President and Founder, Reut Institute
• Mr. Amos Shapira, CEO, Cellcom
• Brig. Gen. (res.), Dr. Ariel Heimann, General Manager, Davidson Institute of

Science Education, Weizmann Institute of Science

• Dr. Deborah Blum, Israel Trauma Coalition
• Moderator: Mr. Yoav Limor, Channel 1, IBA

Regulating the Capital Markets and Pension Savings

• MK Yitzhak Cohen, Deputy Minister of Finance
• Mr. Giora Ofer, CEO, Bank Discount
• Mr. Gil Yaniv, Deputy CEO, Migdal Group
• Mr. Meir Uzan, Founder and Chairman, Shekel Group
• Prof. Yoram Eden, College of Management – Academic Studies
• Moderator: Prof. Amir Barnea, Founding Dean, IDC Herzliya

Iran as a Nuclear Threshold Country – Potential Strategic Implications

• Amb. Tim Guldiman, Fmr. Swiss Ambassador to Iran; Professor of International Relations, University of Frankfurt
• Dr. Patrick M. Cronin, Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program, Center for New American Security
• Prof. Francois Heisbourg, Chairman, International Institute for Strategic Studies and of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy
• Dr. Shmuel Bar, Director of Studies, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
• Moderator: Sir Michael Pakenham, Senior Advisor, Access Industries; Fmr. Chairman, UK Joint Intelligence Committee
• MK Lt. Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon, Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs

Israel's Economic Challenges: Leveraging the Crisis

• Mr. Haim Shani, Director General, Ministry of Finance
• Prof. Rafi Melnick, Provost, IDC Herzliya
• Mr. Ahron Fogel, Chairman, Migdal; Chairman, Advisory Board of the Bank of Israel
• Prof. Daniel Tsiddon, Vice President, Capital Markets Division, Leumi Group
• Moderator: Idan Grinbaum, Deputy Editor, Calcalist
• Prof. Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel

'Managing the Risk of Break-Out: A Poly-Nuclear Middle East and Global Proliferation

• Prof. Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Laureate
• Prof. Hitoshi Tanaka, Fmr. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan; Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE)
• Prof. Paul Bracken, Professor of Management and Political Science, Yale University
• Dr. Bruno Tertrais, Senior Research Fellow, Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS)
• Prof. Maj. Gen. (res.) Itzhak Ben-Israel, Tel-Aviv University
• Moderator: Mr. Adam Ward, Director of Studies, IISS

New Wars in Search for New Laws: International Law and the Contemporary Battlefield

• Prof. George Fletcher, Cardoso Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia Law School
• Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya
• Mr. Liav Orgad, Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya
• Dr. Boaz Ganor, Director, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism Policy, IDC Herzliya
• Moderator: Ms. Dvorah Chen, Dvorah Chen Law Offices

Adjusting to Climate Change: A National Security Dimension

• Mr. Efi Stenzler, Chairman of the Board, Jewish National Fund
• Dr. Orr Karassin, School of Law, Sapir Academic College; Member of the Board, Jewish National Fund
• Prof. Pinhas Alpert, Porter School for Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University
• Dr. Yeshayahu Bar-Or, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Environmental Protection
• Prof. Arnon Sofer, Chaikin Chair in Geostrategy, University of Haifa

The 2010 Herzliya Address

• Chair: Prof. Uriel Reichman, President, IDC Herzliya
• The Herzliya Address: Hon. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel

Concluding Remarks: Gen. (res.) Danny Rothschild, Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy; Chair, Annual Herzliya Conference Series

Herzliya Roundtable Sessions

The Herzliya Roundtable Sessions were held under the Chatham House Rule and attended by invitation only.

Perceptions of American Power: Implications for Global Order and the Middle East Chair: Dr. Dov S. Zakheim, Fmr. US Undersecretary of Defense

• Mr. Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
• Dr. Samantha Ravich, Fmr. National Security Advisor to the US Vice President
• Prof. Amb. Daniel C. Kurtzer, Professor Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
• Mr. Jonathan Paris, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

The Dawn of the Poly-nuclear Middle East: Implications for Deterrence

• Chair: Dr. Shmuel Bar, Director of Studies, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
• Prof. Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland; Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Laureate
• Prof. Kori Schake, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

Israel and the West: Deepening Relations with NATO and the EU

• Chair: Ambassador Dr. Oded Eran, Director, Institute for National Security Studies(INSS)
• Dr. Ronald D. Asmus, Executive Director, Transatlantic Center and Strategic Planning, German Marshall Fund of the US
• H.E. Michael Žantovský, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United Kingdom
• Mr. Tommy Steiner, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Director, Atlantic Forum of Israel

The New US Missile Defense Architecture: Implications for Israel

• Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) Eitan Ben Eliyahu, CEO, Sentry Technology Group; Fmr. Commander of the Air Force
• Lt. Gen. (ret.) Dennis Cavin, Vice President of Air and Missile Defense Strategic Initiatives, Lockheed Martin
• Mr. Uzi Rubin, Fmr. Director, Israel Missile Defense Organization at the Ministry of Defense
• Dr. Oded Brosh, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Risk Management and New Methodologies for Strategic Planning

• Chair: Mr. Eran Etzion, Director of Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Prof. Paul Bracken, Professor of Management and Political Science, Yale University
• Brig. Gen. Dr. Michael Herzog, Envoy of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defence to the Peace Process
• Dr. Steven W. Popper, Senior Economist, RAND

Winning the Battle of the Narrative: An Agenda for Action

• Chair: Col. (res.) Miri Eisin, Fmr. Foreign Media Advisor to the Prime Minister
• Ms. Fern Oppenheim, Applied Marketing Innovations
• Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Poisoning the Future: Fighting Hate Indoctrination and De-legitimization'

• Chair: Mr. Elias Fattal
• Mr. Richard D. Heideman, Chairman, International Advisory Board of the Herzliya Conference; Honorary President, Bna'I Brith International
• Dr. Shmuel Bar, Director of Studies, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
• Mr. Itamar Marcus, Founder and Director, Palestinian Media Watch
• Prof. Martin Kramer, Senior Fellow, Shalem Center; National Security Studies Program, Harvard University
• Mr. Matthew Sinclair, Research Director, Taxpayers Alliance