Program
16/02/06

 

The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy

Institute for Policy and Strategy

 

 

The Sixth Herzliya Conference

on

The Balance of Israel’s National Security

 

January 21-24, 2006

 

Conference & Accommodations at the Daniel Hotel, Herzliya, Israel

 

 

Saturday, January 21, 2006

 

 

Greetings:

Yael German, Mayor of Herzliya

 

Opening Remarks: National Resilience in the Face of Risks and Opportunities

Prof. Uzi Arad, Chair, Herzliya Conference; Head, Institute for Policy and Strategy

  

 Assessing Israel's National Security and the “Herzliya Indices 2006”

 

Chair: Israel Trau, Assistant General Manager, First International Bank of Israel

 

Prof. Rafi Melnick, Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

 

Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, Head of the National Security Council

 

Prof. Gabriel Ben-Dor, Director, National Security Studies Center, University of Haifa

 

Discussion

 

Lt. Gen. (res.) Shaul Mofaz, Minister of Defense

 

 

20:00 Dinner

 

Opening Ceremony

 

Chair: Prof. Uriel Reichman, President, IDC Herzliya

 

Prof. Israel (Robert) J. Aumann, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics; Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Prof. Haim Harari, Chairman of the Board, Davidson Institute for Science Education, Weizmann Institute

 

 

 

Sunday, January 22, 2006

 

08:00 Morning Sessions

 

National Security Policy as Risk Management

 

Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) Eitan Ben-Eliyahu, CEO, Sentry Technology Group

 

Prof. Paul R. Kleindorfer, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

 

Prof. Paul Bracken, School of Management and Department of Political Science, Yale University

 

Discussion

 

 

 Strategic Trends on the Global Landscape

 

Chair: Prof. Jerry (Yoram) Wind, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

 

Stanley Roth, Vice President for Asia, International Relations, Boeing Company

 

Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

 

Dr. Robert Trice, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Lockheed Martin Corporation

 

Prof.  Jacob Frenkel, Vice Chairman, AIG and Former Governor of the Bank of Israel

 

Discussion

 

Discussants:

Dr. Dan Schueftan, Deputy Director, National Security Studies Center, University of Haifa

 

Dr. Shmuel Bar, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

 

Lt. Gen. Dan Haloutz, Chief of General Staff, IDF

           

Break

 

  The Nuclearization of Iran – Strategic Implications

 

Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) David Ivry, Chairman, Board of Directors, Fisher Brothers Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies

           

Philippe Errera, Directeur adjoint, Centre d’Analyse et de Prévision, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, France

 

Sir Michael Quinlan, Consulting Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies  

 

Maj. Gen. (res.) Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel, Head, Security Studies Program, Tel Aviv University

 

Discussion

 

Discussants:

MK Dr. Ephraim Sneh, Chairman, Subcommittee for Defense Doctrine, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

 

MK Prof. Arieh Eldad, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

 

 

MK Dr. Yuval Steinitz, Chairman, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

 

 

 

Lunch

 

14:00 Afternoon Sessions

 

Amb. Ron Prosor, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

 

MK Silvan Shalom, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs

 

 Israel’s Standing in Europe and Future Relations with the EU and NATO

 

Chair: Amb. Dr. Oded Eran, Ambassador, Head of Mission of Israel to the EU

 

Dr. Josef Joffe, Herausgeber/Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit, Germany

 

Ana Palacio, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain and Chair of the Joint Committee on European Affairs, Parliament of Spain

 

General the Lord Charles Guthrie of Craigiebank, GCB, LVO, OBE

 

Dr. Kenneth R. Weinstein, CEO, Hudson Institute

 

Discussion

 

Discussant: Col. (res.) Uri Naaman, Coordinator for NATO and European Defense Organizations, Political-Military Bureau, Ministry of Defense

 

Break

 

 

Israel’s Standing in the United States and Future Israeli-American Relations

 

Chair: Amb. Zalman Shoval, Chairman, Board of Directors, Export Investment Corp., Ltd.

 

Mortimer Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor in Chief, U.S. News and World Report

 

Dr. Frank Luntz, Consultant, The Israel Project

 

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, President, The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (HaKeren L’yedidut Israel)

 

Dr. Boaz Mourad, Brand Israel Group

 

Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman, The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations

 

Dr. Robert Danin, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, US State Department

 

Discussion

 

Discussant: Col. (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman, Director, Israel and Middle East Office, American Jewish Committee

 

 

20:00 Dinner

 

MK Benjamin Netanyahu, Chairman of the Likud Party

 

Prof. Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School

 

Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister of Sweden

 

 

 

Monday, January 23, 2006

 

08:00 Morning Sessions

 

An Atlas of Road Maps and Options for the Israeli-Arab Process

 

Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) Ilan Biran

 

 

Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Gilead, Director, Political-Military Bureau, Ministry of Defense

 

Bentzi Lieberman, Chairman of the Board, Yesha Council and Head of the Samaria Regional Council

 

Jacob Keidar, Director, Multilateral Peace Talks Coordination Department and Water Issues, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

 

Chair: Prof. Uriel Reichman, President, IDC Herzliya

 

Jimmy Carter, Former President of the United States              

 

 

Dr. Robert Satloff, Executive Director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 

Danielle Pletka, Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

 

Discussion                             

 

Discussants:

Brig. Gen. Michael Herzog, Visiting Military Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

 

Amb. Dr. Daniel C. Kurtzer, Visiting Professor of Middle East Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

 

Eyal Megged, Author

 

Break

 

 

Defensible Borders for Israel

 

Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, Head of the Defensible Borders Project and the Institute for Contemporary Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

 

Lt. Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya’alon, Former Chief of General Staff, IDF

 

Amb. Dr. Dore Gold, President, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

 

Discussion

 

Discussant: Brig. Gen. (res.) Oded Tyrah, President, Phoenicia America-Israel

 

 

Defensible Borders for Israel

 

Gideon Grinstein, Founder and President, The Re’ut Institute

 

Prof. Gideon Biger, Department of Geography, Tel Aviv University

 

Prof. David Newman, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

 

MK Dr. Ahmad Tibi, Knesset Economics Committee

  

Discussion

 

Discussants:

Bennett Zimmerman, Project Leader, “Arab Population in the West Bank and Gaza:  The Million Person Gap”

 

Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt

 

Lunch

 

Chair: Poju Zabludowicz, Chairman and CEO, Tamares Group

 

Tzipi Livni, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Justice and Minister of Immigrant Absorption

 

14:00 Afternoon Sessions

 

 

Jerusalem - The Capital of Israel and the Jewish People

 

Chair: Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein

 

Prof. Ruth Lapidoth, The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies

Israel Kimchi, The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies

Nir Barkat, Council Member, Municipality of Jerusalem

Eitan Meir, Director General, Municipality of Jerusalem

 

Discussion

 

Discussants:

Dan Halperin, CEO, IFTIC

 

Dr. Moshe Amirav, Head of Public Policy Studies, Beit Berl College

 

 

 

The Galilee - A National Priority and Challenge

 

Chair: Yehiel Leket, World Chairman, Hakeren Kayemet L’Yisrael, Jewish National Fund

 

Amb. Prof. Aliza Shenhar, President, Emek Yezreel College

 

Brig. Gen. (res.) Eival Gilady, Chairman, Western Galilee College

 

Efrat Duvdevani, Director, Ministry for the Development of the Negev and Galilee

 

Dr. Faisal Azaiza, Head, Jewish-Arab Center, Haifa University; Head, The Gustav Heinemann Institute for Middle Eastern Studies

 

Shlomo Bohbot, Mayor, Maalot-Tarshicha

 

Ehud Prawer, National Security Council

 

Discussion

 

Discussant: Prof. Alean Al-Krenawi, Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University

 

Break

 

The Viability of Democracy: The Rule of Law and the Rulers’ Law

 

Chair: Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, Provost, IDC Herzliya

 

Adv. Elie Goldschmidt, Israel Corp.

 

Shelly Yechimovitch

 

MK Gideon Sa’ar, Likud Parliamentary Group Chairman

 

MK Yossi Sarid, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

               

Discussion

 

 

Law Enforcement: Putting Democracy to the Test

 

Chair: Prof. Moshe Barniv, Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya

 

Dan Margalit, Ma’ariv

 

Justice Micha Lindenstrauss, State Comptroller and Ombudsman

 

Commissioner Moshe Karadi, Inspector General, Israel Police

 

MK Michael Eitan, Chairman, Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee

 

 

Discussion

 

 

Amb. John R. Bolton, Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations (via video conference)

                                               

 

20:00 Dinner

 

Chair: Alan B. Slifka, Founder and Chairman, The Abraham Fund

 

MK Amir Peretz, Chairman of the Labor Party

 

Chair: Hermann Bünz, Director, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Israel Office

 

 

Laurent Fabius, Former Prime Minister of France

 

 

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: 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: 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 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: Zeev Bielski, Chairman of the Executive, The Jewish Agency for 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