Chair: Prof. Alex Mintz, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and
Strategy, IDC Herzliya
Knowing Thy Enemy: Decision
Making Processes of Regional
Adversaries
Monday, January 22, 2007
8:30 Morning Sessions
Knowing Thy Enemy: Decision
Making Processes of Regional
Adversaries
Chair: Prof. Alex Mintz, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and
Strategy, IDC Herzliya
Prof.
Margaret Hermann, Syracuse University
Prof. Martin
Kramer, Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Shalem Center
Dr. Shmuel
Bar, Director of Studies, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
Discussion
The Changing Paradigm of
Israeli - Palestinian Relations in
the Shadow of Iran and
the War
Against the Hizballah
Chair: Amb. Dr. Dore Gold, President, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Prof. Bernard
Lewis, Princeton University
James
Woolsey, Former Director, CIA
Lt. Gen.
(res.) Moshe Ya’alon, Shalem Center; Former Chief of General Staff, IDF
Amir Peretz,
Minister of Defense
Israeli Arabs and the Jewish
State
Chair: Hagai Meirom, Treasurer,
Jewish Agency for Israel
Aida
Toma-Suleiman
Eti Livni,
Former Member of Knesset
Dr. Dan
Schueftan, Deputy Director, National Security Studies Center, University of
Haifa
13:00 Lunch Session
Chair: Jack Rosen, Chairman, American Jewish Congress
Chair:
Prof. Jacob Frenkel, Vice Chairman, American International Group (AIG);
Former Governor of the Bank of Israel
Governor Jon
Corzine, Governor of New Jersey
Shimon Peres,
Vice Premier; Former Prime Minister
14:30 Afternoon Sessions
Upgrading Israel’s
Strategic
Partnerships with the Atlantic
Community: The US, NATO and
the EU
Chair: Aharon Abramovitch,
Director-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
General the
Lord Charles Guthrie of Craigiebank, Former Chief of the Defense Staff, UK
Craig
Kennedy, President, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Dr. Marvin C.
Feuer, Director of Policy and Government Affairs, AIPAC
Dr. Josef
Joffe, Herausgeber/Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit, Germany
Maj. Gen.
(res.) David Ivry, President, Boeing Israel; Former National Security
Advisor and Israeli Ambassador to the US
Bruce P. Jackson,
President, Project on Transitional Democracies
Discussion
Prof. Alan M. Dershowitz, Harvard Law School– via
satellite
President José María Aznar, President, FAES; Former
Prime Minister of Spain
The German EU Presidency:
New Directions for
Middle East Policy
Chair: Hermann Bünz, Director, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Israel Office
Ana Palacio,
Former Foreign Minister of Spain
Prof. Gert
Weisskirchen, Bundestag Committee on Foreign Affairs
Christian
Leffler, Director for Middle East and Southern Mediterranean, DG External
Relations, European Commission
Dr. Rolf
Mützenich, Member of the Foreign Committee of Bundestag
Prof. Karl
Kaiser, Harvard University; Former Head, German Council on Foreign Relations
Amb. Avi Primor,
Director, Trilateral Center for European Studies, IDC Herzliya
Chair: Moshe
Ronen, Chairman, Canada-Israel Committee
Peter MacKay,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada
US Middle East Policy
Following the Congressional Elections
Chair: Amb. Zalman Shoval Chairman of the Board, Institute for Policy and
Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Former Israeli Ambassador to the US
Dr. Robert
Satloff, Executive Director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Stephen E.
Herbits, Secretary-General, World Jewish Congress
Amb. Dr.
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
Discussion
20:00 Dinner Session
Foreign Policymaking -
The View from Israel
and from Europe
Chair: Poju Zabludowicz, Chairman and CEO, Tamares Group
Tzipi Livni,
Vice Prime Minister; Minister of Foreign Affairs; Minister of Justice
Alexandr
Vondra, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
Chair: Shula
Bahat, Associate Executive Director, American Jewish Committee
Senator John
Edwards, Head, One America Committee; candidate for the 2008 Democratic
presidential nomination – via satellite