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The [[Ninth Herzliya Conference]] took place at the [[IDC Herzliya]] on 2-4 February 2009.<ref>[http://www.herzliyaconference.org/eng/_Uploads/2165executivesummary09.pdf 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.</ref>   
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The [[Ninth Herzliya Conference]] took place at the [[IDC Herzliya]] on 2-4 February 2009.<ref>[http://www.herzliyaconference.org/eng/_Uploads/2165executivesummary09.pdf 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.</ref>
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==Program==
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===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
 +
 
 +
===T u e s d a y , F e b r u a r y 3 , 2 0 0 9===
 +
 
 +
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
 +
 
 +
===W e d n e s d a y , F e b r u a r y 4 , 2 0 0 9===
 +
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<ref>[http://www.herzliyaconference.org/_Uploads/2885HC_Themes.pdf Program], the 9th herzliya Conference 2009, herzliyaconference.org, accessed 21 May 2012.</ref>
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

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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 

 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

T u e s d a y , F e b r u a r y 3 , 2 0 0 9

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

W e d n e s d a y , F e b r u a r y 4 , 2 0 0 9

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[2]

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.
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