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