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*Chair: Prof. [[Uzi Arad]] | *Chair: Prof. [[Uzi Arad]] | ||
*Prof. [[Herbert London]], President, [[Hudson Institute]] | *Prof. [[Herbert London]], President, [[Hudson Institute]] | ||
| − | + | *Prof. [[Ephraim Yaar]], Head, Evens Program in Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Tel Aviv University | |
| − | 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 | |
| − | MK Prof. Yael (Yuli) Tamir, Department of Philosophy and School of Education, Tel Aviv University | ||
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| − | Dr. Eilat Mazar, Institute of Archeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | ||
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Discussion | Discussion | ||
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Discussants: | Discussants: | ||
| − | Col. (res). Ahuva Yanai, Executive Director, Matan | + | *Col. (res). [[Ahuva Yanai]], Executive Director, Matan |
| − | + | *[[Ari Shavit]], [[Ha’aretz]] | |
| − | Ari Shavit, Ha’aretz | ||
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| + | '''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 | Discussion | ||
| − | Discussant: Prof. Benjamin Ish-Shalom, Rector, Beit Morasha of Jerusalem: The Academic Center for Jewish Studies and Leadership | + | 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 | |
| − | Chair: Felix Posen, Founder and President, Posen Foundation | + | *Prof. [[Yehuda Bauer]], Yad Vashem |
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| − | Prof. A. B. Yehoshua, Author | ||
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| − | Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Yad Vashem | ||
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Discussion | Discussion | ||
| − | + | '''The Jewish World in 2025''' | |
| − | + | *Chair: [[Zeev Bielski]], Chairman of the Executive, The [[Jewish Agency for Israel]] and the [[World Zionist Organization]] | |
| − | The Jewish World in 2025 | + | *Prof. [[Alan Dershowitz]] |
| − | + | *Amb. Dr. [[Dennis Ross]], Chairman, [[Jewish People Policy Planning Institute]] | |
| − | Chair: Zeev Bielski, Chairman of the Executive, The Jewish Agency for Israel and the World Zionist Organization | ||
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| − | Prof. Alan Dershowitz | ||
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| − | Amb. Dr. Dennis Ross, Chairman, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute | ||
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Discussion | Discussion | ||
| − | + | '''The Diaspora Communities and Israel''' | |
| − | The Diaspora Communities and Israel | + | *Chair: [[Shula Bahat]], Associate Executive Director, [[American Jewish Committee]] |
| − | + | *[[Arcadi Gaydamak]], President, [[Congress of Jewish Communities of Russia]] | |
| − | Chair: Shula Bahat, Associate Executive Director, American Jewish Committee | + | *Prof. [[Yedidya Stern]], [[World Jewish Forum]] |
| − | + | *Dr. [[Colin Rubenstein]], Executive Director, The [[Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council]] | |
| − | Arcadi Gaydamak, President, Congress of Jewish Communities of Russia | ||
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| − | Prof. Yedidya Stern, World Jewish Forum | ||
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| − | Dr. Colin Rubenstein, Executive Director, The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council | ||
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Discussion | Discussion | ||
| + | Discussant: [[Avinoam Bar-Yosef]], Director General, [[Jewish People Policy Planning Institute]] | ||
| − | + | Summary: '''Policy Challenges - Invigorating the Jewish; Democratic; State''' | |
| − | + | *Prof. [[Uzi Arad]] | |
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| − | Summary: Policy Challenges - Invigorating the Jewish; Democratic; State | ||
| − | Prof. Uzi Arad | ||
19:30 Dinner | 19:30 Dinner | ||
| − | The “Herzliya Address” | + | '''The “Herzliya Address”''' |
| − | + | *Chair: Prof. [[Uriel Reichman]] | |
| − | Chair: Prof. Uriel Reichman | + | *[[Ehud Olmert]], Acting Prime Minister; Minister of Finance; Minister of Industry, Trade and Employment |
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| − | Ehud Olmert, Acting Prime Minister; Minister of Finance; Minister of Industry, Trade and Employment | ||
Closing: | Closing: | ||
| − | Prof. Uzi Arad <ref>[http://www.herzliyaconference.org/eng/?CategoryID=215&ArticleID=1542 Program], The 6th Conference, herzliyaconference.org, accessed 6 June 2012.</ref> | + | *Prof. [[Uzi Arad]]<ref>[http://www.herzliyaconference.org/eng/?CategoryID=215&ArticleID=1542 Program], The 6th Conference, herzliyaconference.org, accessed 6 June 2012.</ref> |
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Revision as of 16:55, 6 June 2012
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.[1]
Contents
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 Planning 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 Planning 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 Planning 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:
