Dr. Salam Fayyad, Former Minister of Finance,
Palestinian
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
8:30 Morning Sessions
Initiatives for Diplomacy and
Statecraft in the Arab-Israeli
Context
Dr. Salam Fayyad, Former Minister of Finance,
Palestinian
David
Makovsky, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
MK Silvan
Shalom, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee
Gidi
Grinstein, Founder and President, Re’ut Institute
MK Prof.
Shlomo Breznitz, Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee
Akiva Tor,
Director,
Department for Jewish Communities, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Future of the Israeli
Economy:
Growth for the
Reduction of Poverty
Chair: Dror Strum, Director, The
Israeli Center for Economic Planning
Dr. Yacov
Sheinin
Leah Achdut,
Deputy Director General, National Insurance Institute
Prof. Rafi
Melnick, Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC
Herzliya
Nehemia
Strasler, Chief Economic Editor, Ha’aretz
Discussion
12:00 Lunch Session
Avraham
Hirschson, Minister of Finance
13:00 Afternoon Sessions
Land, Environment, and the
Sustainable Future of Israel
Chair: Effi Stenzler, Chairman,
Jewish National Fund
Dr. Yitzhak
Schnell, Department of Geography, Tel Aviv University
Chen
Altshuler, Manager, Altshuler Shaham Fund
MK Prof.
Menahem Ben-Sasson, Chairman, Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice
Committee
Chair: Effi Stenzler, Chairman,
Jewish National Fund
Jewish-Arab Integrative
Development of the Galilee
Chair: Dr. Ramzi
Halabi, Head of the Arab Business Club
Prof. Ezra
Sadan, Managing Partner, Sadan-Lowenthal, Ltd.; Former Director-General,
Ministry of Finance
Raanan Dinur,
Director-General, Prime Minister’s Office
Discussion
Law, Governance and National
Fortitude
Justice Micha
Lindenstrauss, State Comptroller and Ombudsman
Yitzhak Herzog,
Minister of Tourism
Hagai Golan
Discussion
The Patriotic Sentiment in Israel
after the Second Lebanon War:
A National Survey 2007
Chair: Prof. Amnon Rubinstein
Prof. Ephraim
Yaar, Head, Program in Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Aaron
Ben-Ze’ev, President, University of Haifa
Ari Shavit, Ha’aretz
19:30 Closing Session and the
Prime
Minister’s “Herzliya
Address”
Dinner
Chair: Prof. Amnon Rubinstein
Amb. Ronald
S. Lauder, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
Ehud Olmert,
Prime Minister
Prof. Israel
(Robert) J. Aumann, Nobel Prize Laureate; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Geula Cohen
Aharon Yadlin
Prof. Uzi
Arad