Herzliya 2013

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Herzliya 2013, the 13th annual Herzliya Conference took place at the Dan Acadia Hotel in Herzliya from 11 to 14 March 2013.[1]


Notable comments

  • Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi: I would argue that a nuclear Iran must be prevented precisely because it would act rationally. Should Iran acquire a nuclear military capability, it is mainly the conventional balance of the region that would take a different shape.[2]

Agenda

Plenary sessions

Monday, March 11, 2013

16:00 Herzliya Assembly INAUGURAL CEREMONY AND THE BALANCE OF ISRAEL’S NATIONAL SECURITY Welcome:

The Herzliya Indices:

  • Prof. Rafi Melnick, Provost, IDC Herzliya
  • Prof. Gabriel Ben-Dor, School of Political Sciences, Haifa University

Israel's Foreign Relations Assessment:

  • Amb. Raphael Barak, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Herzliya Assessment:

  • Maj. Gen. (res.) Danny Rothschild, Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy; Chair, Annual Herzliya Conference Series
  • MC: Mr. Jonathan Davis, Vice President for External Relations and Head of the Raphael Recanati International School, IDC Herzliya

18:00 Herzliya Assembly THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: IS THE CRISIS OVER? With:

19:15 Herzliya Assembly CHALLENGES TO ISRAEL’S NATIONAL SECURITY: IDF CHIEF OF STAFF

  • Keynote Address: Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, Chief of the General Staff, IDF

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

11:00 Herzliya Assembly CYBER SECURITY IN A BORDERLESS GLOBAL ARENA IN COOPERATION WITH ISRAEL NATIONAL CYBER BUREAU,PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE AND THE YUVAL NE’EMAN WORKSHOP,TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY

11:00 Nof Yam Assembly ISRAEL’S RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENSE: STRATEGIC, MORAL, AND LEGAL CONSTRAINTS

  • Prof. Maj. Gen. (res.) Yishai Beer, Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya; Fmr. President of the IDF Military Court of Appeals
  • Prof. Moshe Halbertal, Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya; Gruss Professor of Law, NYU Law School
  • Maj. Gen. (res.) Dan Harel, Fmr. Deputy Chief of the IDF General Staff
  • Dr. Eliav Lieblich, Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya
  • Moderator: Mr. Amos Harel, Military Correspondent, Haaretz

12:45 Herzliya Assembly MEDIA & DEMOCRACY IN THE ERA OF MULTIPLE SOURCES OF INFORMATION

12:45 Nof Yam Assembly R&D PRIORITIES: WILL SOLAR ENERGY DELIVER? IN COOPERATION WITH THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT,MINISTRY OF SCIENCE &TECHNOLOGY

  • Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz, Minister of Science and Technology
  • Prof. Moti Hershkowitz, Vice-President and Dean for R&D, Ben-Gurion University; Chairman, National Committee for Energy R&D
  • Prof. Arie Zaban, Head, Bar-Ilan’s Institute of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials (BINA), Bar-Ilan University
  • Mr. Dov Berger, Director of Solar Energy, Ormat Technologies Inc.
  • Dr. Shlomo Wald, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Energy and Water
  • Mr. Barry N. Breen, CEO 3GSolar Potovoltaics Ltd.

Moderator:

  • Ms. Zviya Baron, Principal PetroQuantum B.V.; Advisor to the National Committee for Energy R&D, National Council for Research and Development

12:45 Accadino Assembly REDEFINING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE STATE, CITIZENS, AND THE CORPORATE SECTOR

  • Mr. Oved Yehezkel, CEO, T.A.R.A. Consulting Group; Fmr. Secretary of the Cabinet at the Prime Minister’s Office
  • Mr. Eli Hurvitz, Executive Director, Trump Foundation
  • Brig. Gen. (Res.) Eival Gilady, Chairman, Western Galilee College
  • Brig. Gen. (Res.) Prof. Joshua (Shuki) Shemer, Chairman, Assuta Medical Centers; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
  • Dr. Michal Hemo-Lotem, Director General, JDC Institute for Leadership and Governance
  • Mr. Eyal Gabbai, Managing Partner, RGB Equity; Fmr. Director General of the Prime Minister’s Office

14:30 Herzliya Assembly 14:30 CYBER, SOCIAL NETWORKS & THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLITICS IN COOPERATION WITH THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT,MINISTRY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AND THE YUVAL NE’EMAN WORKSHOP, TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY

  • Chair: Prof. Maj. Gen. (res.) Isaac Ben-Israel, Yuval Ne’eman Workshop, Tel-Aviv University; Chairman, Israel National Council for Research and Development – Ministry of Science & Technology
  • Dr. Chiara de Franco, Research Fellow, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
  • Mr. Noy Alooshe, Musician and Media Artist
  • Ms. Keren Elazari, Computer Security Expert
  • Mr. Sam Graham-Felsen, Barack Obama’s 2008 Campaign Chief Blogger
  • Mr. Eden Shochat, General Partner, Genesis

Nof Yam Assembly 14:30 THE GAS TREASURE: DEVELOPING ISRAEL’S INDUSTRY AND TRANSPORTATION

  • Mr. Yossie Hollander, Chairman, Israeli Institute for Economic Planning
  • Dr. Gilead Fortuna, Senior Research Fellow, Samuel Neaman Institute, Technion
  • Mr. Gil Dankner, Chairman, Dor Chemicals
  • Mr. Danny Ben-Ner, CEO, Ten Petroleum Company
  • Dr. Shlomo Wald, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Energy and Water
  • Moderator: Avi Bareli, The Marker

14:30 Accadino Assembly WOMEN ECONOMIC RESILIENCE

  • Chair: Prof. Sharon Rabin-Margaliot, Dean, Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya
  • Ms. Vered Pear Swid, Head, Authority for the Advancement of the Status of Women, Prime Minister’s Office
  • Ms. Ilana Fahima, Vice President for Human Resources, Teva Pharmaceuticals
  • Adv. Ina Soltanovich-David, Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner, Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Labor
  • Ms. Yafit Alfandari, Head, Consumption and Finance Sector and Coordinator of Gender Statistics, Central Bureau of Statistics
  • Dr. Tali Regev, School of Economics, IDC Herzliya

16:15 Herzliya Assembly IS THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN IMPASSE BREAKABLE?

16:30 Nof Yam Assembly A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY: PERSONAL SECURITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT

18:30 Herzliya Assembly ZIONISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY

20:00 Exodus Hall RECEPTION In honor of the Keren Kayemeth Le'Israel-Jewish National Fund

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

11:00 Herzliya Assembly AHEAD OF PRESIDENT OBAMA’S VISIT TO ISRAEL: US-ISRAEL RELATIONS –QUO VADIS?

12:30 Herzliya Assembly MAJOR TRENDS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS

  • Chair: Prof. Jacob Frenkel, Chairman, JPMorgan Chase International; Chairman, Board of Trusties, Group of Thirty (G-30); Fmr. Governor of the Bank of Israel
  • Prof. Niu Tiehang, Senior Research Fellow & Editor-in-Chief of Globalization Journal, Centre of International Economic Exchanges
  • Mr. Andrew Sheng, President, Fung Global Institute; Fmr. Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission
  • Mr. Daniel J. Arbess, Partner, Perella Weinberg Partners; Portfolio Manager, PWP Xerion Funds

IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ISRAELI ECONOMY

14:00 Herzliya Assembly A NEW MACRO-ECONOMIC STRATEGY FOR ISRAEL

14:00 Nof Yam Assembly THE US PIVOT TO ASIA AND THE GLOBAL BALANCE OF POWER: WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST?

15:30 Herzliya Assembly THE HERZLIYA CONSENSUS: PRIORITIZING NATIONAL BUDGET CUTS

  • Prof. Rafi Melnick, Provost, IDC Herzliya
  • Mr. Roni Bar-On, Fmr. Minister of Finance
  • Mr. Doron Cohen, Director General, Ministry of Finance
  • Mr. Yarom Ariav, Fmr. Director General of the Ministry of Finance
  • Mr. Israel Makov, Chairman of the Board, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC
  • Prof. Leah Achdut, Senior Research Fellow, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; School for Social Sciences and Management, Ruppin Academic Center
  • Concluding Remarks: MK Dr. Yuval Steinitz, Minister of Finance

17:15 Herzliya Assembly EMERGING SECURITY CHALLENGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE PROLIFERATION OF TERROR AND JIHAD

17:00 Nof Yam Assembly IS ISRAEL EXPERIENCING A CREDIT CRUNCH? REFORMING ISRAEL’S CREDIT MARKETS

18:45 Herzliya Assembly KEYNOTE ADDRESS

19:00 Herzliya Assembly IRAN AND THE RED LINE: TIME FOR SWORD OR TIME FOR DIPLOMACY?

  • Amb. Jacques Audibert, Director General for Political and Security Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France
  • The Honorable Rudy deLeon, Vice President for National Security and International Policy, Center for American Progress; Fmr. US Deputy Secretary of Defense
  • The Honorable Mary Beth Long, Fmr. US Undersecretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Ms. Danielle Pletka, Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
  • Dr. Liang Yabin, Research Fellow, Institute for International Strategic Studies, Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party
  • Prof. Uzi Arad, Fmr. National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister; Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
  • Moderator: Dr. Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Marc & Anita Abramowitz Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Thursday, March 14, 2013

11:00 Herzliya Assembly BRIEFING OF IDF DIRECTOR OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

  • Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, Director of Military Intelligence, IDF

11:45 Herzliya Assembly IN SEARCH OF A STRATEGY: US, EUROPE, AND THE MIDDLE EAST

  • The Honorable Derek Chollet, US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • The Honorable Alexandr Vondra, Fmr. Deputy Prime Minister and Fmr. Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic
  • Amb. Jesper Vahr, Director of the Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO
  • Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Gilead, Director, Political-Military Bureau, Ministry of Defense
  • Moderator: Mr. Tommy Steiner, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy

11:45 Nof Yam AssemblyOVERDOSE? ISRAELI MARKET REGULATION

  • Mr. Dror Strum, President, Israeli Institute for Economic Planning
  • Mr. Sharon Kedmi, Director General, Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Labor
  • Ms. Noga Kainan, President, Israeli Forum of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs)
  • Mr. Noaz Bar-Nir, Director General, Ministry of Tourism
  • Mr. Elad Benbaji, CEO, Excellence Nessuah brokerage services Ltd

13:30 Herzliya Assembly SYRIA’S ONGOING STRIFE: REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS

  • Ms. Antonella Caruso, Director, Middle East and West Asia Division, Department of Political Affairs, United Nations
  • Mr. Andrew J. Tabler, Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
  • The Honorable Suat Kiniklioglu, Executive Director, STRATIM; Fmr. Member of Parliament, Turkey
  • Mr. Salameh Nematt, Jordan Communications Consultants
  • Prof. Eyal Zisser, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University
  • Moderator: Ms. Smadar Perry, Middle East Editor, Yediot Aharonot

13:30 Nof Yam Assembly ADDRESSING TRADE VULNERABILITY: ISRAEL’S DEPENDENCE ON TOO FEW EXPORTERS

  • Mr. Sharon Kedmi, Director General, Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Labor
  • Mr. Israel Makov, Chairman of the Board, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC
  • Mr. Dan Catarivas Director, Division of Foreign Trade and International Relations, Manufacturers' Association of Israel
  • Mr. Dov Baharav, Chairman of the Board, Israel Aerospace Industries
  • Moderator: Ms. Galit Hemi, Editor, Calcalist
  • 15:15 Herzliya Assembly ECONOMIC CRISIS AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN A POST-SPRING MIDDLE EAST
  • Dr. Tamara Cofman Wittes, Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
  • Amb. Bernardino Léon, EU Special Representative to the Southern Mediterranean
  • Mr. Sherif El-Diwani, Chief Business Officer, Documenta SL
  • Dr. Israel Elad-Altman, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
  • Ms. Kerstin Müller, MdB, Foreign Policy Spokesperson for the Alliance 90/The Greens Parliamentary Group; Fmr. Minister of State at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Germany
  • Moderator: Ms. Judy Miller, Contributing Editor, City Journal; Adjunct Fellow, Manhattan Institute

15:15 Nof Yam Assembly LEAVING NO CHILD BEHIND? GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

  • Dr. Dan Sharon, Fmr. Director General of the Ministry of Education
  • Mr. Nachum Blass, Senior Researcher, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel
  • Dr. Ofer Rimon, Director, Administration for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education
  • Mr. Shalom Ben Moshe, Senior Director, Human Resources Training and Development, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor
  • Adv. Ravit Dom, Director General, Amal
  • Mr. Dov Lautman, Chair, Hakol Hinuch Movement
  • Dr. Yousef Jabareen, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion
  • Moderator: Ms. Anat Goldstein

17:00 Herzliya Assembly IS A SUNNI AXIS EMERGING? THE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST

17:00 Nof Yam Assembly TOURISM: A TOP PRIORITY INDUSTRY

  • The Honorable Kenneth E.Hyatt, Acting Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade, U.S. Department of Commerce

18:30 Herzliya AssemblyISRAEL’S NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY AND THE CHANGING MIDDLE EAST

  • Opening Remarks: The Honorable Dan Meridor, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy
  • Maj. Gen. Ido Nehushtan, Fmr. Commander in Chief of the Air Force and Fmr. Head of IDF Planning Directorate
  • Maj. Gen. (res.) Danny Rothschild, Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy; Chair, Annual Herzliya Conference Series
  • Prof. Shlomo Avineri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Fmr. Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, Director, the Institute for National Security Studies
  • Moderator: Mr. Ron Ben-Yishai, Journalist, Yedioth Ahronoth/YNET News

20:00 Herzliya Assembly THE HERZLIYA ADDRESS TBD

HERZLIYA ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS

Monday, March 11, 2013

10:00 – 15:00 Nof Yam Assembly THE 2013 HERZLIYA GAME: THE DAY AFTER SYRIA’S DISINTEGRATION – GLOBAL AND REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS Control Group:

  • Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) Danny Rothschild, Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy; Chair, Annual Herzliya Conference Series
  • Ms. Rachel Machtiger, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
  • Mr. Ori Slonim, Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Participants: USA

  • The Honorable Mary Beth Long, Fmr. US Undersecretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Francis H. (Frank) Kearney, President, Inside-Solutions LLC; Fmr. Deputy Director for Strategic Operational Planning, US National Counter-Terrorism Center
  • Mr. R. James Woolsey, Chairman, Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD); Fmr. Director of the Central Intelligence

CHINA

  • Dr. Liang Yabin, Research Fellow, Institute for International Strategic Studies, Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party
  • Prof. Robert Ayson, Director, Center for Strategic Studies: New Zealand (CSS)

RUSSIA

  • Amb. Zvi Magen, Fmr. Ambassador of Israel to Russia

EU/NATO

  • The Honorable Alexandr Vondra, Fmr. Deputy Prime Minister and Fmr. Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic
  • Dr. Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Marc & Anita Abramowitz Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

SAUDI ARABIA AND GCC

  • Dr. David Gordon, Head of Research and Director, Global Macro Eurasia Group; Fmr. Vice Chairman, US National Intelligence Council

TURKEY The Honorable Suat Kiniklioglu, Executive Director, STRATIM; Fmr. Member of Parliament, Turkey ISRAEL

  • Maj. Gen. (Res.) Eitan Ben-Eliyahu, Fmr. Commander in Chief of the Air Force
  • Amb. Dr. Oded Eran, Senior Research Associate, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS); Fmr. Ambassador of Israel to Jordan and to the EU and NATO

JORDAN

IRAN

  • Dr. Shmuel Bar, Director of Studies, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
  • Dr. Alex Greenberg, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

LEBANON

  • Mr. Tony Badran, Research Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

SYRIA

  • Alawistan: Mr. Andrew J. Tabler, Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
  • Jihadistan: Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Research Associate, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University
  • Syrian National Council: Lee Smith, Senior Editor, Weekly Standard

EGYPT

  • Dr. Israel Elad-Altman, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Discussant:

  • Maj. Gen. Mark O. Schissler, Director, Strategy and Policy, U.S. European Command (EUCOM J5)

Moderator:

  • Mr. Tommy Steiner, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

10:00 – 12:30 Accadino Assembly PUNCHING ABOVE THEIR WEIGHT: SMALL ECONOMIES IN THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE

  • Chair: Amb. Irit Ben-Abba, Deputy General Director for Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Discussants:

  • Sir Prof. Peter Gluckman, Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • Dr. David Skilling, Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, New Zealand
  • Mr. Netanel Oded, The National Economic Council, Prime Minister's Office
  • Mr. Dror Strum, President, Israeli Institute for Economic Planning
  • Prof. Ehud Gazit, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Science and Technology

13:00-15:30 Accadino Assembly MARITIME SECURITY AND NAVAL STRATEGY (in Hebrew)

  • Chair: Rear Admiral (Res.) Yuval Zur, Principal Maritime Strategic Chair, University of Haifa

Discussants:

  • Captain (Res.) Yigal Maor, Director, Israeli Maritime Administration; Director General, Shipping and Ports Authority
  • Prof. Eyal Benvenisti, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
  • Dr. Ehud Eiran, Faculty of Political Science, Haifa University
  • Mr. Ohad Cohen, Deputy Director General of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor
  • Brig Gen. Oded Gour-Lavie, Israeli Navy
  • Concluding Remarks: Admiral (Res.) Ami Ayalon Chairman, Executive Committee, University of Haifa; Fmr. Commander-in-Chief of the

Navy Tuesday, March 12, 2013 8:00 Nof Yam Assembly THE LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY OF TERRORISM SPONSORS Chair:

Discussants:

  • Mr. Floyd R. Jenkins, Founding President, Meridian 361 International Law Group, PLLC
  • Mr. Steven R. Perles, Perles Law Firm, PC
  • Mr. Stuart H. Newberger, Partner, Crowell & Moring, LLP
  • Dr. Boaz Ganor, Deputy Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Founder & Executive Director, International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)

8:00 Business Lounge TIME FOR RESET? HAS ISRAEL LOST EUROPE? Chair:

Discussants:

  • Ms. Kerstin Müller, MdB, Foreign Policy Spokesperson for the Alliance 90/The Greens Parliamentary Group;Fmr. Minister of State at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Germany
  • Maj. Gen. Mark O. Schissler, Director, Strategy and Policy, U.S. European Command (EUCOM J5)
  • Dr. Jürgen Rüttgers, Fmr. Minister President, NorthRein Westphalen, Germany
  • H.E. Tomáš Pojar, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Israel; Fmr. Deputy Foreign Minister of the Czech Repubic
  • Amb. Agnieszka Magdziak-Miszewska, General Counselor to the Undersecretary of State for Defence Policy, Ministry of Defence, Poland
  • Mr. Roland Freudenstein, Deputy Director and Head of Research, Centre for European Studies
  • Dr. Tommy Steiner, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

8:00 Accadino Assembly SHORT-TERM MIDDLE EAST SCENARIOS: SYRIA, LEBANON,JORDAN, Chair:

  • Dr. Shmuel Bar, Director of Studies, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Discussants:

  • Prof. Asher Susser, Stanley and Ilene Gold Senior Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University
  • Prof. Eyal Zisser, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University
  • Dr. Israel Elad-Altman, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
  • Mr. Salameh Nematt, Jordan Communications Consultants

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

8:00 Business Lounge DIPLOMACY AND MILITARY:THE INTERFACE

  • Chair: Amb. Eran Etzion, Director of Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Discussants:

8:00 Nof Yam Assembly US-ISRAEL RELATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF US STRATEGY

  • Chair: Prof. Galia Golan, Director of the MA Program, Lauder School of Government, IDC

Discussants:

  • Amb. Liora Herzl, Deputy Director General for North America, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Amb. Alon Pinkas, Fmr. Consul General of Israel in New York
  • Mr. Zvi Rafiah
  • Mr. Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

8:00 Accadino Assembly SHORT-TERM MIDDLE EAST SCENARIOS: IRAN, IRAQ, THE GULF STATES, LIBYA, AND THE MAGHREB

  • Chair: Dr. Shmuel Bar, Director of Studies, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Discussants:

  • Dr. David Gordon, Head of Research and Director, Global Macro Eurasia Group; Fmr. Vice Chairman, US National Intelligence Council
  • Prof. Joshua Teitelbaum, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Bar-Ilan University
  • Mr. Alex Greenberg, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
  • Dr. Oded Brosh, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
  • Ms. Antonella Caruso, Director, Middle East and West Asia Division, Department of Political Affairs, United Nations

13:30 Business Lounge ISRAEL’S ALLIES IN THE REGIONAL PERIPHERY

  • Chair: Dr. Shmuel Bar, Director of Studies, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Discussants:

15:30 Accadino Assembly FROM BAD TO WORSE? MIDDLE EAST ECONOMIC PROSPECTS

  • Chair: Mr. Daniel F. Runde, Director, Project on Prosperity and Development, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Discussants:

Thursday, March 14, 2013

8:00 Business Lounge ISRAEL-TURKEY RELATIONS AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

  • Chair: Prof. Shlomo Avineri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Fmr. Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Discussants:

  • The Honorable Suat Kiniklioglu, Executive Director, STRATIM; Fmr. Member of Parliament, Turkey
  • Prof. Andreas Theophanous, Head, Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Nicosia; Director, Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs
  • Mr. Brian Katulis, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
  • Mr. Tommy Steiner, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

8:00 Accadino Assembly LONG-TERM MIDDLE EAST SCENARIOS

  • Chair: Dr. Shmuel Bar, Director of Studies, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Discussants:

  • Prof. Uzi Rabi, Director, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University
  • Mr. Amos Hochstein, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Diplomacy
  • Mr. R. James Woolsey, Chairman, Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD); Fmr. Director of the Central Intelligence
  • Dr. Israel Elad-Altman, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

8:00 Nof Yam Assembly CYBER INT.

  • Chair: Prof. Maj. Gen. (res.) Isaac Ben-Israel, Yuval Ne’eman Workshop, Tel-Aviv University; Chairman, Israel National Council for Research and Development – Ministry of Science & Technology

Discussants:

  • Mr. Tal Kandel, Symantec
  • Mr. Tzachi Zorenshtain, System Architect, Israel, McAfee International Ltd
  • Mr. Guy Mizrahi, CEO, Cyberia - Advanced Cyber Solutions ltd.
  • Mr. Yuval Altman, Head of Cyber Security, Verint Systems
  • Mr. Tal Mozes, Hacktics Leader, Advisory Services, Ernst & Young
  • Mr. Guy Alon, Marketing Director, ELTA SIGINT, EW & Communication Division[1]

Media Coverage

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 TIME FOR NEW NATIONAL AND REGIONAL AGENDAS, Herzliyaconference.org, accessed 11 March 2013.
  2. ↑ Giulio Terzi, Why we can’t allow Iran to go nuclear, jpost.com, 14 March 2013.
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