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PROF. REICHMAN’S WORDS TOUCH THOUSANDS Herzliyan The IDC Spring2010 Update IDC Victorious in International Humanitarian LawCompetition *Lauder School of Government - Quality makes the difference * The Tenth Herzliya Conference - What the future could look like Taking a peek at the innovative projects at * the Sammy Ofer School of Communications * New School of Economics opens at IDC * Listen to what they have to say - Focus on twoIDC stars - Prof. Yair Tauman and Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar LIVE IN ISRAEL, STUDY IN ENGLISH MA in Government Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy • Earn an MA in one year at an affordable price. • Study with a renowned faculty. • Network with leaders, policymakers and students from dozens of countries around the world. 4 • Gain both theoretical and practical knowledge. SPECIALIZATIONS OFFERED • Diplomacy & Conflict Resolution • Counter-Terrorism & Homeland Security • Public Policy & Administration (taught in Hebrew) • Research Track (thesis required) CONTACT US Tel: +972-9-952-7658, +972-9-952-7300 E-mail: [email protected] www.idc.ac.il/gov/eng/ma TABLE OF CONTENTS IDC President Uriel Reichman’s Memorial Day Speech 4 Positively Tal Ben-Shahar 6 Psychology Students Pay it Forward 9 What’s Up at Hillel 10 IDC Wins International Humanitarian Law Competition 14 Playing the Field: A Moment with Prof. Yair Tauman, New Dean of the Arison School of Business 16 Global MBA Students Claim Victory 18 Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy: Creating a Better Tomorrow 20 The Tenth Annual Herzliya Conference: CONTENTSWhat the Future Could Look Like 26 4 6 10 16 18 20 52 58 68 On the Cover: 26 Justice Kirsch and the Jean Pictet Concours Hot Off the Press: Academic News 40 Committee (background) congratulate IDC students Jonathan Braverman, Danielle Brown and Uri Students of the Sammy Ofer School of Communications Feldman on their victory. Apply their Skills 52 Editor and Producer: RRIS Alumni Join the Ranks to Serve their Nation 58 Yael Yativ Department of External Relations IDC Students Attend Geneva Summit 62 IDC Herzliya [email protected] The National Tournament for First Year Debaters 64 Deputy Editor and Producer: Young Leadership Leads the Way with the American Friends of IDC 66 Lara Greenberg Hila Rusin The Israel Friends of IDC Glitter Up for Good Causes 68 Chief Journalist and Sub-Editor: Mayor of Vienna Hosts Gala Evening for the Trilateral Center for Joy Pincus [email protected] European Studies 70 Photograph Contributions: IDC Alumni Rock the Campus 72 Yotam From Graphic Design: Roitman Design 03-5222562 | www.zrdesign.co.il IDC Spring 2010 > 3 IDC President Uriel Reichman’s Memorial Day Speech for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers touched the hearts of thousands. ach of us has his own private, inner album; still before dark, there were few people at the site. I located pictures of formative moments in our lives. Gadi's temporary grave and stood across from it, staring EMy Yom Kippur War was bloody and filled blankly and empty-handed and feeling lost and befuddled. with death. But what I remember best of all is one Not far away from me stood a woman in a light-colored quiet moment that occurred some ten days after dress holding a flower bouquet in her hands. When she saw the fighting ended. I was standing at the bedside of me, she approached me and stood at my side. She split her Yehuda Wahaba at the Rambam Medical Center. bouquet in half, silently placed one half on Gadi's grave and Both of his eyes were bandaged and he could not see remained standing silently beside me for another minute. I me. As if in a scene taken from a Russian World War stared down at the grave, and did not exchange a word with II movie, I stood there while he recounted my brother Gadi's last her. She left. I will never know who she was or whose grave she had come to moments. visit, but her act of kindness is with me still today, after all these long years. After the shiva ended, I set out to reconstruct the events of Gadi's No happy stories ensued in the trail of bereavement. My parents last few days. I found the first clue in Gadi's file in the IDF Rabbinate. The maintained contact with Yehuda Wahaba. For three years he would come file had a picture of the death scene, of the barrage that had ripped Gadi's on Memorial Day to stand with us at the Kiryat Shaul cemetery. In the entire left side from the shoulder down. The location listed was Yehuda in fourth year my father shot himself over Gadi's grave; I think he did not the Golan. I found his used car in Tzemach and collected more information forgive himself for not loving his son enough. Yehuda started visiting my in the area. father's grave as well. Several years later, we changed places. Yehuda was rehabilitated and had married a wonderful lady, a special education teacher. “Dozens of my friends were killed, and many When a car bomb went off near a bus in Afula, the only remnants found of others who did not return from the battlefield his wife were scraps of paper from her students' notebooks, which she had or were wounded in war had been my taken home with her. We began to pay a yearly visit to her grave in Afula. acquaintances. Nevertheless, there was a sense of Several years later, Yehuda's younger son, who had found consolation in power – power that stems from solidarity, a life Afula's local Chabad community, was killed in a car accident in a Chabad of companionship, and the feeling that we had a summer camp in the United States. common destiny and a common core of values to My mother is no longer living, in a manner of speaking. Today, I can which we were committed.” no longer sense what she feels. At the age of 91, she suffers from dementia and can no longer express herself. Has the woman who immigrated alone Gadi was unlucky. He had polio in his second year of life and meningitis to Eretz Yisrael as a German orphan at the age of 14, and who endured a in his third. The adverse effects that remained after physiotherapy were not difficult life here, found consolation in forgetfulness? Is she still living with primarily physiological. He did not fit in at home. At the age of sixteen the pain of her losses? he returned from Kibbutz Dafna after nearly dying from poisoning. After Our people's history is a long history, yet it has seen only a few serving two years in the Armored Corps he was transferred to the Home moments of achievement and happiness. Over the course of my life, I Front Command. After the army, he worked for a year as an assistant to a remember, at the age of three, my parents' whispers about the Holocaust tractor driver. He never really attended high school. When the war broke and the night terrors of a young child hearing the sound of the Nazis' out he was carrying with him a plane ticket to Greece for his first trip abroad. boots coming to take him away. At the age of five, I remember carrying Gadi sought out the battlefront. He reported for duty at the Pilon army a small package of clothing to nursery school to give to the children of camp, but was not on the call-up list. Near the Kinneret, at the foothills of illegal immigrants. I remember the War of Independence in Ramat Gan, the Golan Heights, after all of the fallen and wounded soldiers had been which was then only a small village near Tel Gerisa, and the bomb shelter I evacuated, his request was finally granted and he was permitted to stand in dug up in the yard as a 14-year-old during the 1956 Sinai War. I remember as a loader-signaler in a tank. Gadi fought for six hours in his civilian attire. my service in the Paratroopers Brigade and the border crossings for the The tank suffered a direct hit and the tank commander, Yehuda Wahaba, purpose of collecting intelligence as well as the outrage over the fact that was seriously injured. Gadi evacuated Yehuda and treated his wounds. As the retaliatory acts were assigned to the Golani Brigade. Later, in reserve he was running back to the tank to report the injury, a Syrian tank suddenly duty, we accrued ample experience in combat during the Six Day War, the appeared nearby and sprayed him with machine gun fire. War of Attrition in the Jordan Valley and on the banks of the Canal, and Immediately upon the outbreak of that war, I had left the University during the Yom Kippur War. Dozens of my friends were killed, and many of Chicago, leaving behind a wife and young daughter, to go to Kennedy others who did not return from the battlefield or were wounded in war had International Airport to fight over a seat on a plane so that I could report been my acquaintances. Nevertheless, there was a sense of power – power to duty and join my army reserve unit as a paratrooper officer. Five months that stems from solidarity, a life of companionship, and the feeling that we later, I reluctantly acquiesced to my parents’ pleas that I return to Chicago had a common destiny and a common core of values to which we were and complete my doctorate. In the afternoon hours, on the day of my flight, committed.