Monday, January 23, 2006

08:00 Morning Sessions

An Atlas of Road Maps and Options for the Israeli-Arab Process

Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) Ilan Biran

Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Gilead, Director, Political-Military Bureau, Ministry of Defense

Adi Mintz

Jacob Keidar, Director, Multilateral Peace Talks Coordination Department and Water Issues, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Chair: Prof. Uriel Reichman, President, IDC Herzliya

Dr. Robert Satloff, Executive Director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Discussion

Discussants:

Brig. Gen. Michael Herzog, Visiting Military Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Amb. Dr. Daniel C. Kurtzer, Visiting Professor of Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Eyal Megged, Author

Break

Defensible Borders for Israel

Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, Head of the Defensible Borders Project and the Institute for Contemporary Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Lt. Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya’alon, Former Chief of General Staff, IDF

Amb. Dr. Dore Gold, President, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Discussion

Discussant: Brig. Gen. (res.) Oded Tyrah, President, Phoenicia America-Israel

Demography, Borders and Palestinian Statehood

Chair: Dr. Israel Elad-Altman, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Gideon Grinstein, Founder and President, The Re’ut Institute

Prof. Gideon Biger, Department of Geography, Tel Aviv University

Prof. David Newman, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

MK Dr. Ahmad Tibi

Discussion

Discussant: Bennett Zimmerman, Project Leader, “Arab Population in the West Bank and Gaza: The Million Person Gap”

Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt

Lunch

Chair: Poju Zabludowicz, Chairman and CEO, Tamares Group

Tzipi Livni, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Justice and Minister of Immigrant Absorption

14:00 Afternoon Sessions

Jerusalem - The Capital of Israel and the Jewish People

Chair: Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein

Prof. Ruth Lapidot, The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies

Israel Kimchi, The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies

Nir Barkat, Council Member, Municipality of Jerusalem

Eitan Meir, Director General, Municipality of Jerusalem

Discussion

Discussant: Dan Halperin, CEO, IFTIC

The Galilee - A National Priority and Challenge

Chair: Yehiel Leket, World Chairman, Hakeren Kayemet L’Yisrael, Jewish National Fund

Amb. Prof. Aliza Shenhar, President, Emek Yizreel College

Brig. Gen. (res.) Eival Gilady, Chairman, Western Galilee College

Efrat Duvdevani, Director, Ministry for the Development of the Negev and Galilee

Dr. Faisal Azaiza, Head, Jewish-Arab Center, Haifa University; Head, The Gustav Heinemann Institute for Middle Eastern Studies

Shlomo Bohbot, Mayor, Maalot-Tarshicha

Discussion

Break

The Viability of Democracy: The Rule of Law and the Rulers’ Law

Chair: Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, Provost, IDC Herzliya

Adv. Elie Goldschmidt, Israel Corp.

Shelly Yechimovitch

MK Gideon Sa’ar, Likud Parliamentary Group Chairman

MK Yossi Sarid

Discussion

Law Enforcement: Putting Democracy to the Test

Chair: Prof. Moshe Barniv, Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya

Dan Margalit, Ma’ariv

Justice Micha Lindenstrauss, State Comptroller and Ombudsman

Commissioner Moshe Karadi, Inspector General, Israel Police

MK Michael Eitan, Chairman, Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee

Discussion

20:00 Dinner