Tuesday, January 24, 2006

 

08:00 Morning Sessions 

 

Social Policy and Economic Growth

Chair: Prof. Amir Barnea, Founding Dean, Arison School of Business, IDC Herzliya

 

Dr. Karnit Flug, Director of Research, Bank of Israel

 

Prof. Arie Arnon, Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

 

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Director, Center for Employment Policy, Hudson Institute

 

Daniel Doron, Director, Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress

 

Discussion

 

Prof. Yehezkel Dror, Founding President, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute

 

 

Discussion

 

The Socio-Economic Interface: Sectors, Initiatives and Policy

 

Chair: Mr. Yossi Rosen, President and CEO, Israel Corp.

 

Itsik Danziger, Chairman, Education Initiative in the Galilee, IVN

 

Prof. Ezra Sadan, Managing Partner, Sadan-Lowenthal, Ltd.

 

Dr. Aziz Haidar, Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Sir Ronald Cohen, Chairman, The Portland Trust

 

 

Discussion

 

Break

           

Investment to Spur Economic Growth and Reduce Poverty

 

Chair: Mr. Yossi Hollander, Chairman, Jacada

 

Prof. Stanley Fischer, Governor, Bank of Israel

 

Dr. Yacov Sheinin, CEO, Economic Models

 

Prof. Sean Barrett, Trinity College, Dublin

 

Discussion

 

Discussant: Shraga Brosh, President, Manufacturers Association of Israel

 

 

Lunch

 

Lord George Weidenfeld of Chelsea, Weidenfeld & Nicholson

 

 

14:00 Afternoon Sessions

 

Patriotism and National Security in Israel

 

Chair: Prof. Uzi Arad

 

Prof. Herbert London, President, Hudson Institute

 

Prof. Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar, Head, Evens Program in Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Tel Aviv University

 

MK Prof. Yael (Yuli) Tamir, Department of Philosophy and School of Education, Tel Aviv University

 

Dr. Eilat Mazar, Institute of Archeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Discussion

 

Discussants:

Col. (res). Ahuva Yanai, Executive Director, Matan

 

Ari Shavit, Ha’aretz

 

 

 

Judaism as Culture in the Age of Globalization

 

Chair: Prof. Moshe Kaveh, President, Bar-Ilan University

 

Prof. Menachem Brinker, Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Prof. James Young, Chair, Department of Judaic and Near East Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Discussion

Discussant: Prof. Benjamin Ish-Shalom, Rector, Beit Morasha of Jerusalem: The Academic Center for Jewish Studies and Leadership

 

Chair: Felix Posen, Founder and President, Posen Foundation

 

Prof. A. B. Yehoshua, Author

 

Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Yad Vashem

 

Discussion

 

 

The Jewish World in 2025

 

Chair: Mr. Zeev Bielski, Chairman of the Executive, The Jewish Agency of Israel and the World Zionist Organization

           

Prof. Alan Dershowitz

 

Amb. Dr. Dennis Ross, Chairman, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute

 

Discussion

 

 

The Diaspora Communities and Israel

 

Chair: Shula Bahat, Associate Executive Director, American Jewish Committee

 

Arcadi Gaydamak, President, Congress of Jewish Communities of Russia

 

Prof. Yedidya Stern, World Jewish Forum

 

Dr. Colin Rubenstein, Executive Director, The Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council

 

Discussion

 

Discussant: Avinoam Bar-Yosef, Director General, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute

 

Summary: Policy Challenges - Invigorating the Jewish; Democratic; State

Prof. Uzi Arad

 

19:30 Dinner

 

The “Herzliya Address”

 

Chair: Prof. Uriel Reichman

 

Ehud Olmert, Acting Prime Minister; Minister of Finance; Minister of Industry, Trade and Employment

 

Closing

           

Prof. Uzi Arad