UK-ISRAEL SHARED STRATEGIC CHALLENGES CONFERENCE Schedule (subject to change) 8:15 Arrival, Registration, Coffee etc. 9:00 – 9:10 Setting the Scene Ambassador H.E Daniel Taub (Intro: Richard Ferrer) 09:10 – 09:20 Introductory Remarks Ambassador Ronald Lauder, President, World Jewish Congress 9:20 – 09:35 The official views from London and Tobias Ellwood MP, Parliamentary Jerusalem Undersecretary of State at FCO Silvan Shalom, MK Israeli Vice PM 09:35 – 09:50 Silvan Shalom MK in conversation 9:50 – 10:05 Regional security challenges Shaul Mofaz 10:10 – 11:10 Expert Panel 1: Iran – Eight days Sir Richard Dalton (Chatham House) and counting… Emily Landau (INSS) Meir Javendanfar (Iran-Israel Observer) Shashank Joshi (RUSI) Sima Shine (Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs) Chair: Richard Pater (BICOM) 11:15 – 11:25 Break 11:25 – 11:50 Isaac Herzog MK in conversation with Jonathan Freedland 11:55 – 12:05 Not in God’s Name Lord Sacks 12:10 – 13:10 Expert Panel 2: Responding to Eran Etzion (Forum for Strategic radicalisation. Can the genie be put Dialogue) back into the bottle? Charles Farr (Home Office) Itamar Marcus (Palestinian Media Watch) Peter Neumann (ICSR) Haras Rafiq (Quilliam Foundation) Chair: Natalie Nougayrede, (The Guardian / Former editor of Le Monde) 13:10 – 13:55 Sandwich lunch/networking time 13:55 – 14:20 Yair Lapid in conversation Chair tbc 14:25 – 15:25 Expert Panel 3: Responses to Sarah Benioff (DCLG) the growth of antisemitism: Does Robert Ejnes (CRIF) increasing antisemtism threaten the Mark Gardner (CST) future of European Jewry? Gillian Merron (Board of Deputies) Maajid Nawaz (Quilliam Foundation) Chair: Robert Singer (CEO, World Jewish Congress) 15:25 – 15:50 The view from New York: Is the UN Ambassador Ron Prosor in helping or hindering the pursuit of Conversation With Dr. Einat Wilf peace in the Middle East? 15:55-16:00 Rob Halfon MP Vice-Chairman, Conservative Party 16:00 – 16:55 Expert Panel 4: Can we deliver Shlomo Avineri (Hebrew University) stability? Responses to the collapse Dan Chugg (Foreign Office) of Arab states and the rise of ISIL? Oded Eran (INSS) Jane Kinninmont (Chatham House) Alan Mendoza (Henry Jackson Society) Chair: Moav Vardi, (Diplomatic Correspondence, Isr Ch.10) 16:55 – 17:15 Martin Indyk Video Link Interview Interview with Lyse Doucet (BBC) 17:20 – 18:20 Expert Panel 5: Brig Gen.Yossi Kuperwasser Have rejectionists slammed the door Omer Bar Lev MK on the two-state solution? Prof. Jonathan Rynhold (Argov Center) Gabrielle Rifkind (Oxford Research Group) Nadhim Zahawi MP Chair: Toby Greene (BICOM) PORTCULLIS HOUSE WESTMINSTER 22 JUNE 2015.