Monday, February 2nd, Ivcher 

The Balance of Israel's National Security

08:15-09:30
The Security Dimension

Mr. Dan Meridor
Former Member of the Cabinet; Chairman of the National Security Doctrine Commission

Brig. Gen. (res.) Dr. Ephraim Sneh
Former Deputy Minister of Defense

Prof. Uzi Arad
Chairman, Herzliya Conference


Chair: MK Tzachi Hanegbi
Chairman, Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee 

open discussion


09:30-11:00
The Foreign Relations Dimension

Chair: Mr. Aaron Abramovich
Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Amb. Yossi Gal
Senior Deputy Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Mr. Naor Gilon
Director, Bureau for International Affairs, Center for Policy Research, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Mr. Eran Etzion
Director, Policy Planning Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

open discussions


11:15-12:45
Formal Opening

Chair: Prof. Uzi Arad
Chairman, Herzliya Conference

Greetings:
Prof. Uriel Reichman
President, IDC Herzliya

Ms. Yael German
Mayor of Herzliya

Mr. Shimon Peres
President of the State of Israel

The Balance of Israel's National Security and the 2009 "Herzliya Indices"

Prof. Rafi Melnick
Provost, IDC Herzliya

Prof. Gabriel Ben-Dor
Head, School of Political Sciences, Haifa University

Maj. Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan
President, Sderot Conference for Society

13:30-15:00
The Negev as the New Frontier:
Re-prioritizing its Development

Chair: Zeevi Kahanov

Prof. Alex Mintz
Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Prof. Avishay Braverman
Chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee

Mr. Eitan Wertheimer
Chairman of the Board, "Daroma"

Mr. Zeev Bielski
Chairman of the Executive Jewish Agency for Israel and the WZO

Mr. Ofer Isseroff
Director, "Daroma"; Regional Director, Jewish Agency for Israel

open discussion

15:15-17:00
Perspectives on the Changing Global Landscape

Chair: Sir Michael Pakenham
Former Chairman of the UK Joint Intelligence Committees

Amb. Igor S. Neverov
Director, North American Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Prof. Brahma Chellaney
Professor of Strategic Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

Amb. John Bolton
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations

Mr. Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff
Senior Director for Policy Programs, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Amb. Zalman Shoval
Chairman, Friends of the Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Former Ambassador of Israel to the US

open discussion


17:15-18:00
Prime Ministerial Candidate's "Herzliya Address"

Chair: Mr. Israel Makov
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
 
Ms. Tzipi Livni
Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs

18:00-19:30
Can European-Israeli Relations be Decoupled from the Palestinian Issue?
Chair: Amb. Raphael Barak
Deputy Director General for Western Europe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Mr. Tomas Pojar
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic

Mr. Thomas Oppermann, MdB
Deputy Chairman, SPD Parliamentary Group, Germany

Dr. Liam Fox, MP
Shadow Defense Secretary, United Kingdom

Amb. Avi Primor
Director, Center for European Studies, IDC, Herzliya

Amb. Marc Otte
European Union Special Representative to the Middle East Peace
Process

open discussion

20:30-22:30
Change of Guard and the Future of US World Leadership

Chair: Prof. Herbert London
President, Hudson Institute

Amb. John Bolton
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations

Mr. R. James Woolsey
Venture Partner with VantagePoint;
Former US Director of Central Intelligence

Mr. Richard Gordon
President, American Jewish Congress

Amb. Alfred H. Moses
Chair, UN Watch; Partner & Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP; Honorary President, American Jewish Committee

open discussion

Conversation between:
Mr. Thomas L. Friedman and Dr. Josef Joffe
New York Times Columnist Editor-Publisher, Die Zeit