Ninth Herzliya Conference

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

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

The Balance of Israel' s National Security 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

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, New York Times Columnist and Dr. Josef Joffe, Editor-Publisher, Die Zeit

Tuesday , February 3, 2009

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

Wednesday, F e b r u a r y 4 , 2 0 0 9

The David Sling Project

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