Monday, February 2, 2009

T h e Balance of 's National Security

08:15-09:30 The Security Dimension 08:15-09:45 The Societal Dimension

Chair: MK Chair: Col. (res.) Ahuva Yanai Chairman, Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee CEO, Matan

Mr. Mr. Isaac (Buji) Herzog Former Member of the Cabinet; Chairman of the National Security Minister of Welfare and Social Services and Minister of the Doctrine Commission Diaspora, Society, and Fight Against Antisemitism

Brig. Gen. (res.) Dr. Ephraim Sneh Mr. Nahum Itzkovich Former Deputy Minister of Defense Director General, Ministry of Welfare and Social Services

Prof. Uzi Arad Prof. Mooli Lahad Chairman, Herzliya Conference School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Tel-Hai Academic College open discussion open discussion

09:30-11:00 The Foreign Relations Dimension

09:45 -10:00 Mr. Eliyahu Yishai Chair: Mr. Aaron Abramovich Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Amb. Yossi Gal Senior Deputy Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 10:00 -11:00 The Economic Dimension

Mr. Naor Gilon Chair: Mr. Eli Hurvitz Director, Bureau for International Affairs, Center for Policy Research, Chairman, Board of Directors, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ministry of Foreign Affairs Prof. Rafi Melnick Mr. Eran Etzion Provost, IDC Herzliya Director, Policy Planning Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr. Karnit Flug open discussion Director, Research Department, Bank of Israel

Mr. Roni Bar-On Minister of Finance

open discussion

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. 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

This program is updated as of February 1 speakers marked by an asterisk are not finalized yet; updates will be posted on the Conference website www.herzliyaconference.org/eng Monday, February 2, 2009

13:30-15: 00 The Negev as the New Fron tier: 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 15:00-16:30 Are Mixed Cities the Face of the Landscape Future for Israel?

Chair: Sir Michael Pakenham Chair: Prof. Aliza Shenhar Former Chairman of the UK Joint Intelligence Committee President, Emek Yezreel College

Amb. Igor S. Neverov Mr. Amnon Be'eri-Sulitzeanu Director, North American Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Co-Executive Director, Abraham Fund the Russian Federation

Prof. Rassem Khamaisi Prof. Brahma Chellaney Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Haifa Professor of Strategic Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi University

Amb. John Bolton Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Mr. Kamel Agbaria Chairman, Neighborhood Committee, Jaffa Arab Quarter

Mr. Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff Mr. Shimon Gafsou Senior Director for Policy Programs, German Marshall Fund of the Mayor, Nazareth-Ilit United States Prof. Amb. Zalman Shoval IDC Herzliya Chairman, Friends of the Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Former Ambassador of Israel to the US open discussion

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

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18:00-19:30 Can European -Israeli Relations be 18:00-19:15 Multi -Faceted Jerusalem Decoupled from the Palestinian Issue? Chair: Dr. Gavriel Barkay Chair: Amb. Raphael Barak Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Deputy Director General for Western Europe, Ministry of Foreign Bar-Ilan University Affairs Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa Mr. Tomas Pojar Custos of the Holy Land Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic Prof. Yossi Shilhav Mr. Thomas Oppermann , MdB Department of Geography, Bar-Ilan University Deputy Chairman, SPD Parliamentary Group, Germany Dr. Dore Gold Dr. Liam Fox , MP President, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Shadow Defense Secretary, United Kingdom Mr. Hanna Siniora Amb. Avi Primor Co-CEO IPCRI Director, Center for European Studies, IDC, Herzliya open discussion Amb. Marc Otte European Union Special Representative to the Middle East Peace Process 19:15-19:30 MK Avigdor Liberman open discussion 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 and Dr. Josef Joffe New York Times Columnist Editor-Publisher, Die Zeit

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009 Education and Science as Layers of National Security

08:15-10:00 Dealing with Asy mmetric Islamic 08:15-09:45 Why Do Israel i Students Fail ? Can the Terrorism Digital Revolution Change the Educational

Chair: Dr. John Chipman Reality?

Director General and Chief Executive, International Institute for Chair: Dr. Shimshon Shoshani Strategic Studies (IISS) Former Director General of the Ministry of Education

Prof. Brahma Chellaney Ms. Gila Ben-Har Professor of Strategic Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Director, Center for Educational Technology Delhi

Mr. Yoram Yaacovi Dr. Jamie Patrick Shea CTO, Microsoft Israel Development Center Director, Policy Planning, Office of the Secretary General, NATO

Mr. Meir Brand Lt. Gen. (res .) Moshe (Bogie) Yaalon Google Israel Country Director Former IDF Chief of Staff

Prof. Michal Yerushalmy Mr. Glenn Carle Faculty of Education, Haifa University Former US Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Transnational

Threats Prof. Yuli Tamir

Minister of Education Mr. Matthew Mark Horn

Co-Executive Director, American Jewish Congress open discussion

open discussion

10:00-11:30 Coping with Hamas: Lessons from 09:45-11:00 Economic Concepts for Higher Education

Operation "Cast Lead" Chair: Mr. Dror Strum President, The Israeli Institute for Economic Planning Chair: Prof. Martin Kramer Senior Fellow, Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies, Shalem Center Dr. Yaacov Sheinin CEO, Economic Models Prof. Avraham Sela Department of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mr. Avraham Shochat Former Minister of Finance; Chairman of the Shochat Commission MK Brig. Gen. (res.) Effie Eitam on Higher Education Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Prof. Hagit Messer-Yaron Dr. Anat Kurtz President, The Open University Senior Research Associate, Institute for National Security Studies Maj. Gen. Avi Zamir Col. (Res.) Daniel Reizner Former Head of the IDF International Law Department Head of Personnel Branch, IDF

MK Dr. Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Prof. Yuli Tamir Minister of Education open discussion 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 11:20-12:35 R&D National Policy: Higher Education –

Mr. Isaac (Buji) Herzog Moving from Basic Science to R&D Minister of Welfare and Social Services and Minister of the Diaspora, Society, and Fight Against Antisemitism Chairs: Prof. Oded Abramsky Chairman, National Council for Research and Civilian Mr. Ben-Dror Yemini Development Maariv Prof. Menahem Yaari Dr. Boaz Mourad President, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Insight Research Group

Prof. Leonard Saxe Moderator: Prof. Rivka Carmi Director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis President, Ben-Gurion University University Mr. Guri Zilka Amb. Ron Prossor Advisor, National Council for Research and Development; Former Ambassador of Israel to the UK Director of Council for Higher Education

Mr. David Horovitz Prof. Mina Teicher Editor-in-Chief, The Jerusalem Post Chair, National Committee for International R&D Relations, National Council for Research and Development open discussion Dr. Lea Nass Former Chair of the Science and Technology committee

open discussion

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

14:00-15:15 Jumpstarting the Israeli -Palestinian 13:20-14:45 From R&D to Commercial and Process: Economic Initiatives and Political Economic Application as Part of Derivatives National Policy

Chair: Sir Ronald Cohen Chairs: Prof. Oded Abramsky Chairman, The Portland Trust Chairman, National Council for Research and Civilian Development Dr. Robert Danin Head of Mission, Quartet Representative to the Middle East Prof. Menahem Yaari President, Israel Academy of Sciences and Dr. Maher S. El-Kurd Humanities Chairman of the PLO Economic Committee Moderator: Prof. Leah Boehm Maj. Gen. (res.) Danny Rothschild Member, National Council for Research and President, Council for Peace and Security Development; Chief Scientist, Israel Aerospace Industries Amb. Irit Ben-Abba Deputy Director General for Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Prof. Moshe Oron Affairs Chief Scientist, KiloLambda, National Council for Research and Development Dr. Shavit Matias Deputy Attorney General, in charge of International Issues Dr. Eli Opper Chief Scientist, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor open discussion 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

15:30-17:00 A Matter of Historic Justice: Jewish 15:00-16:30 Global Jewish Peoplehood: Metrics Refugees from Arab Countries and Policies

Chair: Dr. Avi Bitzur Chair: Mr. Leonid Nevzlin Director General, Ministry for Pensioners' Affairs; Specialist for Home Chairman, Nadav Fund Front Defense, Bar-Ilan University Prof. Yoav Shoham Mr. Raffi Eitan Stanford University Minister for Pensioners' Affairs, also in charge of Restitution of Jewish Rights and Assets Prof. Ephraim Ya'ar Head of the Program in Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Tel Ms. Rachel Machtiger Aviv University Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Atlantic Forum of Israel Prof. Steven M. Cohen Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College Dr. Zvi Zameret Director, The Ben Zvi Institute Dr. Shlomi Ravid Director, International School for Jewish Peoplehood Studies, Mr. Edwin Shuker Beit-Hatefutsot President,Justice for Jews from Arab Countries Prof. Yehezkel Dror open discussion 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, University

open discussion

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

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.) Minister of Defense and Former Prime Minister

18:00-19:30 The Syrian Tier and Regional Statecraft 18:00-19:30 National Sustainability and Israel's

Chair: Dr. Israel Elad-Altman Green Safety Net

Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya Chair: Mr. Effi Stenzler

Maj. Gen. (res.) Dani Yatom Chairman of the Board, Jewish National Fund Former Head of the Mossad Prof. Uri Shani Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland Director, Water Authority Former Head of the National Security Council Prof. Yakov Karni Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror CTO, HelioFocus Ltd. Deputy President, Lander Institute Prof. Yael Moriah Dr. Shmuel Bar Faculty of Architecture, The Technion Institute Director of Studies, The Institute of Policy and Strategy, IDC, Herzliya Mr Shamai Assif Head of the Planning Administration, Ministry of Interior Dr. Dan Schueftan Deputy Director, National Security Studies Centre, Haifa open discussion University

Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Gilead Head, Politico-Military Bureau, Ministry of Defense

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

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The David Sling Project

8:15-10:15 Iran on the Nuclear Threshold – 8:15-10:00 Energ y, Security and Global Feasability of Prevention and of Geopolitics Deterrence Chair: Dr. Sass Somekh Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) David Ivry Founder, Musea Ventures President, Boeing Israel; Former Head of the National Security Council Dr. Ed Morse Managing Director and Chief Economist, LCM Commodities Prof. Scott Sagan Co-Director, Center for International Security and Cooperation Mr. R. James Woolsey (CISAC), Stanford University Venture Partner with VantagePoint; Former US Director of Central Intelligence Amb. Yossi Gal Senior Deputy Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr. Jamie Patrick Shea Director, Policy Planning, Office of the Secretary General, Dr. Bruno Tertrais NATO Senior Research Fellow, Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique (FRS) Dr. Brenda Shaffer Energy Management and Policy Program, University of Haifa Dr. Michael Makovsky Foreign Policy Director, Bipartisan Policy Center Dr. David Wurmser Director, Delphi Global Analysis; Former Senior Advisor on MK Gen. (res.) Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel National Security Affairs to the US Vice President Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Mr. Yossie Hollander open discussion Chairman, The Institute for Israeli Economic Planning

open discussion

10:30-12:15 Nuclear Proliferation and Arms Control 10:30-12:15 The World Economic Crisis: Initiatives Recalibrating Financial Risk Management and Regulation Chair: Dr. Ariel Levite Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Chair: Mr. L. Jack Staley President, Stanford Group (Suisse) Mr. Jonathan S. Paris Adjunct Fellow, Hudson Institute Prof. Jacob Frenkel Former Governor of the Bank of Israel; Chairman, Group of Dr. Oded Brosh Thirty (G-30); Vice Chairman, American International Group Senior Research Fellow, The Institute for Policy and Strategy, (AIG) IDC, Herzliya Mr. Michael G. Oxley Mr. Sverre Lodgaard Vice Chairman, NASDAQ Stock Market; Former Chairman of Senior Research Fellow, NUPI and former Director of the United the US House of Representatives' Financial Services Nations Institute for Disarmament Research Committee

Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin Dr. Stephen J. Canner Principal Researcher, IMEMO, Russian Academy of Sciences Vice President, Investment and Financial Services, US Council for International Business

Amb. David Danieli Ms. Joanne Thornton Deputy Director General for Policy, Israel Atomic Energy Senior Vice President, Policy Research, Stanford Group Commission Company

open discussion open discussion

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

13:00-14:30 Israel's Financial Governance: 13:00-14:45 Risk Sharing: Bolstering Israel's Recalibrating Financial Risk Management Strategic Partnerships

and Regulation Chair: Amb. Dr. Oded Eran

Director, Institute for National Security Studies; Atlantic Forum Chair: Mr. Shlomo Zohar of Israel Chairman of the Board of Directors, Discount Bank

Dr. Bruno Tertrais Prof. Amir Barnea Senior Research Fellow, Fondation pour la Recherche Arison School of Business, IDC Herzliya Strategique, (FRS)

Mr. Rony Hizkiyahu Mr. Christian Schmidt , MdB Supervisor of the Banks, Bank of Israel Parliamentary State Secretary Federal Ministry for Defense, Mr. Yadin Antebi Germany Commissioner of Capital Markets, Insurance and Savings, Ministry

of Finance Mr. Ralf Fuecks

President, Heinrich Boll Foundation Mr. Zvi Ziv

CEO, Bank Hapoalim Mr. Rafael Bardají

Director of International Policy, FAES Fundacion Mr. Zvi Lubetzky

Chairman, IBI Investments House Mr Tommy Steiner

Senior Research Fellow , The Institute for Policy and Strategy,

IDC, Herzliya open discussion 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 14:45-17:00 Weathering the Storm: Cope with Strategic Threats

Israel and the World Economic Crisis Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) Herzle Bodinger Chairman of the Board, IMDA; Former Commander of the Israeli Chair: Mr. Yossie Hollander Air Force Chairman, The Institute for Israeli Economic Planning Mr Uzi Rubin Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg CEO, Rubinkon Head of the National Economic Council, Prime Minister's Office Brig. Gen. (res.) Yair Dori Dr. Yaacov Sheinin Former Commander, Anti-Aircraft Warfare CEO, Economic Models Mr. Michael D. Brown Prof. Avishay Braverman Former US Under Secretary of Homeland Security, Emergency Chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee Preparedness and Response

Mr. Yarom Ariav Dr. Avi Bitzur Director General, Minister of Finance Director General, Ministry for Pensioners' Affairs; Specialist for Home Front Defense, Bar-Ilan University Mr. Israel Makov Chairman of the Board of Directors, Institute for Policy and Dr. Max Singer Strategy, IDC Herzliya Senior Research Fellow, BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University Mr. Gidi Grinstein President, Reut Institute Maj. Gen. (res.) Matan Vilnai Deputy Minister of Defense open discussion open discussion

Prof. Stanley Fischer Governor, Bank of Israel

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

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. Head of the Opposition and Former Prime Minister

18:00-19:30 Reconnecting Israel with its 18:00-19:30 The Imperative for Government Expatriates Reform

Chair: MK Brig. Gen. (Res.) Amira Dotan Chair: Gad Zeevi Chairperson, Subcommittee for Foreign Affairs and CEO, Japan Auto Public Diplomacy Prof. Uriel Reichman Mr. Erez Halfon Founder and President, IDC Herzliya Director General, Ministry of Immigrant Absorption Mr. Dror Strum Prof. Zaki Shalom President, The Israeli Institute for Economic Planning The Zionist Council In Israel Mr. Ms. Shulamit Aloni Vice Premier and Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Former Minister of Education and Culture MK Gideon Sa'ar Prof. Moshe Oron Chairman, Parliamentary Group Chief Scientist, KiloLambd; National Council for Research and Development Mr Raanan Dinur Director General, Prime Minister's Office MK Avshalom (Abu) Vilan Member, Internal Affairs and Environment Committee Mr. Sami Friedrich Chairman, Shaldor Inc. Mr. Mano Geva CEO, Midgam Research and Consulting; Chairman of Israel Research Institues Association open discussion

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

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