Wednesday, January 23rd
Daniel Hotel, Herzliya
08:00-13:00
INTERNATIONAL HERZLIYA ROUNDTABLE:
The Sunni-Shiite Rift – Origins and Strategic Implications
By invitation only
08:30 MORNING SESSIONS
THE NEXT 60 YEARS: GOALS AND DIRECTIONS FOR ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE
Promoting Excellence as a National Value
Introduction: Mr. Robert H. Asher, Chairman, Society for Excellence through Education
Prof. Jehuda Reinharz, President, Brandeis University
Mr. Tony Danker, McKinsey & Company’s Global Education Practice
Mr. Hezki Arieli, Director-General, Society for Excellence through Education
Mr. Miki Kesary, Director, Center for Excellence Enhancement
Mr. Martin Kraar, President, Society for Excellence through Education – USA
Prof. Daniel Zajfman, President, Weizmann Institute for Science
Conclusions: Mr. Lester Crown, President, Henry Crown & Co.
Discussion
Reforming Education and Higher Learning
Chair: Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, Former President, IDC Herzliya; Former Minister of Education
Prof. Yuli Tamir, Minister of Education
Prof. Menachem Yaari, President, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Dr. Shimshon Shoshani, CEO, Birthright-israel; Former Director-General Director of the Ministry of Education
Prof. Zeev Tadmor, Chairman of the Board, Shmuel Ne'eman Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
MK Limor Livnat, Former Minister of Education
Prof. Zvi Galil, President, Tel Aviv University
Discussion
Arab Israelis and National Service
Chair: Maj. Gen. (res.) David Ivry, President, Boeing Israel
Dr. Reuven Gal, Prime Minister's Office
Dr. Hanna Swaid, Member, Knesset's Economic Affairs Committee
Prof. Sammy Smooha, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Haifa
Mr. Nabil Ouda, Writer and Journalist
Discussion
13:00 LUNCH
14:00 AFTERNOON SESSIONS
Israel-Diaspora Relations
Prof. Yehezkel Dror, Founding President, Jewish People Policy Planning Instituten
Jewish Secularism in the 21st Century
Chair: Prof. Gabriel Motzkin, Director, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Academic Advisor, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem
Prof. Menachem Brinker, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Shmuel Feiner, Department of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University
Discussion
Introduction: Mr. Felix Posen
Mr. Amos Oz, Writer
Trends in the Connection of the Diaspora's Young Generation to Israel
Introduction: Mr. Gideon Mark, Birthright-israel
Mr. Isaac Herzog, Minister of the Diaspora, Society, and Fight against Anti-Semitism
Prof. Leonard Saxe, Director, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University
MK Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, Chair, Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee
Discussion:
Rethinking Jewish Philanthropy – Interrelations between Israel and the Diaspora
Introduction: Mr. Zeev Bielski, Chairman of the Executive, Jewish Agency for Israel and World Zionist Organization:
Dr. John Ruskay, Executive Vice President and CEO, UJA-Federation of New York
Mr. Avi Naor, Chairman, “Or Yarok” – Association for Safer Driving in Israel; Member of the Executive, Jewish Agency for Israel
Government Responsibility for Jewish-Arab Equality and Integration
Chair: MK Nadia Hilou, Chairperson, Knesset Committee on the Rights of the Child
Introduction:
Mr. Amnon Be'eri-Sulitzeanu, Executive Director, Abraham Fund Initiatives, Israel
Mr. Muhammad Darawsha, Director, External Relations, Abraham Fund Initiatives, Israel
Mr. Drew Haire, Head of the Community Relations Unit at the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, Northern Ireland *
Prof. Shimon Shamir, Tel Aviv University
Mr. Jafar Farah, Director, Mossawa Center
Discussion
Mr. Raanan Dinur, Director-General, Prime Minister's Office
Law Governance, and National Security
with Justice Professor Aharon Barak
Summing Up: Endurance Forever
Prof. Uzi Arad, Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Chair, Herzliya Conference
20:00 Closing Ceremony and Dinner
Chair: Prof. Uriel Reichman, Founding President, IDC Herzliya
Ms. Yael German, Mayor of Herzliya
Amb. Ronald S. Lauder, President, World Jewish Congress
“Herzliya Address" –
Mr. Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister
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