Speakers The 4th Herzliya Conference 2003 Mr. Zeev Abeles Chair of the Board of Directors, Union Bank of Israel and Former Supervisor of Banks at the Bank of Israel. Held senior positions in Israel and abroad, including Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central Securities Company, Manager at the North America Bank, and Advisor to the World Bank. Represented the Bank of Israel in the Israeli Delegation to the peace talks with Jordan and with the Palestinians, and served on the Public Committee on Capital Markets. Graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Economics and Accounting. Mr. Kenneth Abramowitz Managing Director, The Carlyle Group, a company which focuses on buyout opportunities in the U.S. healthcare industry. Served as an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. for twenty-three years and as a Healthcare Fund Manager at EGS Securities. Awarded the top hospital supply and service analyst fourteen times by the magazine “All-America Research Team”. Received an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Joseph Ackerman President and Chairman of the Board, Elbit Systems. Held senior managerial positions such as Senior Vice President of the Operations Group at Elbit Defense Systems, General Manager of EFW Inc., Elbit’s plant in Texas, and as Vice President for Advanced Battlefield Systems. Received a B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technion. Dr. Uzi Arad Head of the Institute for Policy and Strategy, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. Concurrently, Advisor to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and Member of the Board of the Posen Foundation. Served in the Mossad for twenty-five years holding senior positions in Israel and abroad, his last position being Director of Intelligence, after which he was appointed Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Former research fellow at the Hudson Institute and Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University. Received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in International Relations from Princeton University, which he attended as a Fulbright scholar. Participated in advanced executive courses at Harvard University. Chair of the Herzliya Conference. Maj. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi Deputy Chief of General Staff, IDF. Serves in the IDF for thirty-one years in various command and staff positions, including GOC Northern Command,, Deputy Head of the Intelligence Directorate, Head of Operations Directorate, Commander of the Lebanon Liaison Unit, Commander of a reserve armored division, Intelligence Officer in the Northern Command, and Commander of the Golani Brigade. Received a B.A. in Political Science. Graduated from the IDF’s Command and Staff College and the U.S. Marines Command and Staff College. Dr. Ronald D. Asmus Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs in the Clinton Administration. Previously, a senior fellow at the RAND Corp. and for Radio Free Europe. Written widely on American Foreign Policy and U.S.-European issues. Recipient of the U.S. Department of State’s Distinguished Service Award, the Republic of Poland’s Commander’s Cross, the Republic of Lithuania’s Order of the Grand Duke Gediminas (Second Class), and the Republic of Estonia’s Order of the Cross of St. Mary’s Land (Third Class). Prof. Shlomo Avineri Department of Political Science, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Held visiting appointments at several universities including Yale, Cornell, University of California, and the Central European University in Budapest, and several research institutes such as the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Brookings Institution, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Served as Director-General of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs during Yitzhak Rabin’s first government Recipient of the 1996 Israel Prize. Member of the editorial boards of various professional magazines. Authored several books in his area of expertise. Studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the London School of Economics. Mr. Eli Ayalon Chairman of the Board and CEO, DSP Group Inc. and Executive Chair of ParthusCeva, Inc. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Technion and of the High-Tech Management School of Tel Aviv and Northwestern Universities. Involved in Israel’s high-tech industry since 1976 and served in various positions in the defense, communication, medical equipment, and semiconductor industries. Received a B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the Technion. Dr. Shmuel Bar Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy and Strategy, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. Served in the Israeli Intelligence community for thirty years where he held senior analytical, planning, and diplomatic positions, specializing in regional security, Islamic Radicalism and Terrorism in the Middle East and East Asia. Published a number of books and scholarly articles in his areas of expertise. Received a Ph.D. in History of the Middle East from Tel Aviv University. Prof. Amir Barnea Professor of Finance and Founding Dean, Arison School of Business, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. Deputy Chair of the Board and COO of Singer-Barnea & Co. Professor Emeritus of Tel Aviv University. Held visiting positions at several leading institutions, including Cornell University and New York University. Serves in several senior positions in Israeli businesses, private institutions, and on public committees of the Bank of Israel and the Finance Ministry. Received a Ph.D. in Finance and Managerial Economics from Cornell University. Prof. Anne Bayefsky Professor of Political Science at York University of Toronto and an Adjunct Professor and Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University Law School. Active member of numerous Human Rights organizations on the national and international levels. Participated in American and Canadian delegations to United Nations Human Rights committees. Served as the Director of the Center for Refugee Studies at York University and Professor of Constitutional and International Human Rights Law at the University of Ottawa. Previously, a Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law. Recipient of several prestigious prizes for her research on human rights. Published many books and articles in her area of expertise. Prof. Gabriel Ben-Dor Professor of Political Science and Director of the National Security Studies Center, University of Haifa. Also served as the Rector of the university and as the President of the Israeli Political Science Association. Published seven books and over one hundred articles on Middle East politics, civic-military relations, conflict resolution, and ethnic politics. Received a Ph.D. in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies from Princeton University. Maj. Gen. (res.) Eitan Ben-Eliahu Founder and CEO of Sentry Technology Group, Israel. Served for over thirty years in different command positions in the Israel Air Force (IAF), retiring as Commander Chief of the IAF. Received a B.A. in Economics and Business Administration from Bar Ilan University and an M.A. in Strategy and International Relations from Tel-Aviv University. Mr. Yashar Ben-Mordechai Director-General, Oil Refineries Ltd. (ORL) He also held several managerial positions, such as Acting General Manager, Vice President of Operations, Manager of Operations Division, and Project Manager at ORL. Also served as Project Manager, Deputy Production Division Manager and an engineer at the Ashdod Refinery. Received a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Technion. Prof. Haim Ben-Shahar Professor Emeritus of Economics at Tel Aviv University. Chair and CEO of Ben-Shahar Associates (BSA), an international economic and business consulting firm and Chairman of the Hammer Fund for Economic Cooperation in the Middle East. Established the “Israel Democracy Institute” and served as its Chairman until 1991. Authored six books and published numerous articles on financial management, capital markets, economic policy, oil and energy, regional and urban planning, and economic cooperation and Middle East peace in academic journals. Received a Ph.D. in Banking and Finance from New-York University. Dr. Yigal Ben-Shalom Director-General Designate, National Insurance Institute of Israel and Institute for Policy and Strategy, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. A senior lecturer in Social Policy at universities throughout Israel. Head of the Welfare Section of JDC Israel and a senior research fellow at the Minerva Center for Youth Studies at Haifa University. Served as Director General of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. Executive Director of M.B.S Systems Company, which deals with strategic planning, consulting and management of information systems. Received a Ph.D. from the University of Haifa. Ambassador Yoram Ben-Zeev Deputy Director-General for North America, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Has served in the Israeli Diplomatic Service for thirty years in senior positions in Israel and abroad including Consul General in Los Angeles, Coordinator for the Ministry’s Peace Process Delegation, and Acting Deputy Director-General for Middle Eastern Affairs. Also served as Deputy Director of the President’s Office and as Advisor to the President of Israel. Received an M.A. in Middle East Studies and Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Attended a Systems Management Course at UCLA.