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]

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 POLITICSIN 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

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

Bank of 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

Planning, US National Counter-Terrorism Center

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

  1. TIME FOR NEW NATIONAL AND REGIONAL AGENDAS, Herzliyaconference.org, accessed 11 March 2013.