8:30  Morning Sessions

v     Opening Session

Prof. Uzi Arad, Conference Chair; Founding Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, Israel Prize Laureate; President, IDC Herzliya

Yael German, Mayor of Herzliya

v     Perspectives on the Balance of Israel’s National Security

Chair: Michal Abadi-Boiangiu, Executive VP, Beinleumi

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

Dr. Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group

Eli Hurvitz, Chairman, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries

Shlomo Nehama, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Bank Hapoalim

Dan Margalit, Ma’ariv

v     National Policies for Promoting Excellence in Education

Chair: Dan Meridor, Head of Task Force

Prof. Miriam Ben-Peretz, Israel Prize Laureate; Department of Education, University of Haifa

Hezki Arieli, Director-General, The Society for Excellence through Education

Dr. Shimshon Shoshani, CEO, Taglit-birthright Israel

Discussion

MK Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud Party Leader and Leader of the Opposition; Former Prime Minister

14:00 Afternoon Sessions

v     Geostrategic Shifts in the Global Arena

Chair: Prof. Jacob Frenkel, Vice Chairman, American International Group (AIG); Former Governor of the Bank of Israel

Torkel L. Patterson, President, Raytheon (Presentation)

Dr. Horst Teltschik, Former National Security Advisor to the German Chancellor

Stanley O. Roth, Vice President for Asia/International Relations, Boeing

Discussion

v     Bolstering Israel’s Defense Forces

Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.), Ilan Biran, Board of Directors, Institute for Policy and Strategy

Col. (res.), Gideon Hoshen, President and CEO, Hoshen-Eliav Systems Engineering

Brig. Gen. Udi Dekel, Plans and Policy Directorate, IDF

Prof. Micha Popper, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa

MK Maj. Gen. (res.), Matan Vilnai, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

MK Brig. Gen. (res.), Effie Eitam, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

Dr. Yacov Sheinin, CEO, Economic Models; The Israeli Institute for Economic Planning

 Discussion

v     Reviewing the American-Israeli Strategic Dialogue

Chair: Amb. Richard H. Jones, US Ambassador to Israel

Amb. Nicholas Burns, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Lt. Gen. (res.), Shaul Mofaz,  Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transportation

 Discussion

v     Strategic Implications of the Changing Global Nuclear Order

Chair: Dr. Oded Brosh, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Dr. Ariel (Eli) Levite, Deputy Director-General (Policy), Israel Atomic Energy Commission

Amb. Thomas R. Pickering, Former US Under Secretary of State

Prof. Paul Bracken, Yale University

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

v     Coping with a Nuclearizing Iran:  Options for Prevention and Deterrence

Chair: Prof. Uzi Arad

Dr. Gary Samore, Vice President, Council on Foreign Relations

Dr. Robert Einhorn, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Richard Perle, American Enterprise Institute

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

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

Disscussion

Chair: Dr. Eran Lerman, Director, Israel and Middle East Office, AJC

Gordon England, US Deputy Secretary of Defense

8:30  Morning Sessions

v     Knowing Thy Enemy:  Decision-Making 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 

v     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

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

James Woolsey, Former Director, CIA

 Discussion 

v     Israeli Arabs and the Jewish State

Chair: Hagai Meirom, Treasurer, Jewish Agency for Israel

Eti Livni, Former MK

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

Aida Toma-Suleiman, Follow-Up Committee for the Arab Population of Israel

 Disscussion

Shimon Peres, Vice Premier; Former Prime Minister

14:00  Afternoon Sessions

v     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 UK Defense Staff

Craig Kennedy, President, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Dr. Marvin C. Feuer, Director of Policy and Government Affairs, AIPAC (Presentation)

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

Maj. Gen. (res.), David Ivry, President, Boeing Israel; Former National Security Advisor

v     European Foreign Policy under the German Presidency

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

Ana Palacio, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain

Prof. Gert Weisskirchen, MdB, Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee

Christian Leffler, Director for Middle East and Southern Mediterranean, DG External Relations, European Commission

Dr. Rolf Mützenich, MdB, Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee

Prof. Karl Kaiser, Harvard University; Former Head, German Council on Foreign Relations

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

Discussion

v     US Middle East Policy Following the Midterm 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

v     Foreign Policy Challenges - Views from Israel, Europe and America

Chair: Poju Zabludowicz, Chairman and CEO, Tamares Group

Tzipi Livni, Vice Prime Minister; Minister of Foreign Affairs; Minister of Justice

Alexandr Vondra, Deputy Prime Minister, Czech Republic

8:30  Morning Sessions

v     Policy Implications of Regional Economic Trends

Dr. Edward L. Morse, Chief Energy Economist, Lehman Brothers

Sir Ronald Cohen, Chairman, Portland Capital & Portland Trust

MK Prof. Avishay Braverman, Knesset Finance Committee

v     Israel’s Financial Strength Following the Reform

Chair: Prof. Amir Barnea, Founding Dean, Arison School of Business, IDC Herzliya

Dr. Yossi Bachar, Director-General, Israel Tax Authority

Gabriela Ravid, Former CEO, Psagot Ofek Investment House 

Zvi Ziv, CEO, Bank Hapoalim

v     Energy Security and Alternative Energy Sources

Chair: Amir Makov, Chairman, Israeli Institute of Petroleum and Energy

Maj. Gen. (res.), Oren Shachor, Chairman and President, Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company

Yossi Maiman, President, Merhav Group

Dr. Sass Somekh, President, Novellus Systems

v     Challenges for Next Generation’s Leaders

Chair: Dr. Shimshon Shoshani

Prof. Oz Almog, University of Haifa

Maj. Yifat Greenwald, IDF Behavioral Sciences Department

Brig. Gen. (res.), Yair Cohen, Intelligence Corps, IDF

Dr. Jeffrey R. Solomon, President, Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies

Matthew Bronfman, Chair, Budget and Finance Commission, World Jewish Congress  

15:00  Afternoon Sessions

Governor Mitt Romney, Former Governor of Massachusetts

v     Jewish Identity and National Strength

Chair: David Gappell, Managing Director, Schusterman Foundation-Israel

Rabbi Prof. David Ellenson, President, Hebrew Union College

Rabbi Dr. Michael Marmur, Dean of the Jerusalem School, Hebrew Union College

Dr. Meir Buzaglo, Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University.

Prof. Aliza Shenhar, President, Emek Yezreel College

v     Strategies for Confronting Anti-Semitism

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

Dr. Stanley Greenberg, The Israel Project

v     Israel and the Diaspora – The Global Partnership of the Jewish People with the State of Israel

Chair: Zeev Bielski, Chairman of the Executive, The Jewish Agency for Israel and the World Zionist Organization

Ofra Strauss, Chair, Strauss-Elite Group

Benny Landa, Founder, HP Indigo

Israel Maimon, Cabinet Secretary

v     Combating the De-legitimization of the Jewish State and Winning the Battle of Public Opinion

Chair: Dr. Fania Oz-Salzburger, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa

MP Prof. Irwin Cotler, Member of Parliament; Former Justice Minister, Canada

Natan Sharansky, Head, Institute for International and Middle Eastern Studies, Shalem Center

Dr. Richard Landes, Boston University; Director & Co-Founder, Center for Millennial Studies

8:30 Morning Sessions

v     Initiatives for Diplomacy and Statecraft in the Arab-Israeli Context

Dr. Salam Fayyad, Former Minister of Finance, Palestinian Authority

MK Silvan Shalom, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

Gidi Grinstein, Founder and President, Reut Institute (Presentation)

MK Prof. Shlomo Breznitz, Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee

David Makovsky, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

v     The Future of the Israeli Economy: Reducing Poverty through Economic Growth

Chair: Dror Strum, Director, The Israeli Center for Economic Planning

Dr. Yacov Sheinin

Leah Achdut, Deputy Director General, National Insurance Institute (Presentation)

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

Nehemia Strasler, Chief Economic Editor, Ha’aretz

13:00 Afternoon Sessions

v     Land, Environment, and the Sustainable Future of Israel 

Chair: Effi Stenzler, Chairman, Jewish National Fund

Dr. Izhak Schnell, Department of Geography, Tel Aviv University

Chen Altshuler, Director of Research, Altshuler Shaham Fund

MK Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, Chairman, Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee

v     A Shared Galilee:  Jewish-Arab Post-War Development of the Galilee

Chair: Dr. Ramzi Halabi, Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University; Board Member, The Abraham Fund Initiatives

Prof. Ezra Sadan, Managing Partner, Sadan-Lowenthal, Ltd.; Former Director-General, Ministry of Finance

Raanan Dinur, Director-General, Prime Minister’s Office

v     Law, Governance and National Fortitude 

Isaac Herzog, Minister of Tourism

Justice Micha Lindenstrauss, State Comptroller and Ombudsman

Hagai Golan, Editor, Globes

v     Patriotism and National Resilience in Israel after the Second Lebanon War: The 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

Awarding of prize for photography on “Patriotism during the War in Lebanon”

v     19:30 Closing Session and the Prime Minister’s “Herzliya Address”*

Chair: Prof. Amnon Rubinstein

Amb. Ronald S. Lauder, Founder, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

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

Aharon Yadlin

Geula Cohen

Prof. Uzi Arad

*By special invitation only