The 19th Herzliya Conference

President of the State of Israel

President & Founder, Reichman University

Executive Director; Chairman of the Institute’s Annual Herzliya Conference Series

​Minister of National Defence of Greece

​U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

​Assistant to the 45th President of the
United States & Special Representative
for International Negotitations,
The White House, USA

​Deputy Assistant to the President & Senior Director for Middle Eastern Affairs, National Security Council, The White House, USA

Chairwoman, Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Germany​

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lockheed Martin​, USA

Attorny General, Ministry of Justice​

Director of the Mossad​

​Speaker of the Knesset

​Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the State of Israel

Chairman, Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and International Terrorism, House Committee on Foriegn Affairs, USA

​Ranking Member of the Economic Opportunity Subcommittee on Veterans' Affairs and Co-Chair of the Congressional Hellenic-Israel Alliance, USA

​Special Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State

Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Intelligence​

Former Chief of General Staff of the IDF

​Vice President for Global Innovation Policy and Communications, Amazon

Special Representative for Syria Engagement & Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, U.S. State Department

​U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, U.S. Department of State

"Blue & White" Candidate for Prime Minister

Former Minister of Education and of Diaspora Affairs​

​Chairman of "Yesh Atid", "Blue & White" Party; Former Minister of Finance

Chairman, Yisrael Beiteinu party; Former Minister of Defense

​Former Commander of the Israeli Air Force

​Mayor of Baqa al-Gharbiyye

Member, City Council of Ramla

Chief Economist, Bank Julius Baer​, Switzerland

​Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

​Associate Director and Acting Director General, Sheba Medical Center; Director of the NY/American MD Program, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University; Former Director General, Ministry of Health

Former Mayor of Hura​

LLM Student, George Washington University Law School​

Chief Executive Officer, Leumit Health Services​

Anne and Greg Rosshandler Senior Fellow, Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies; Former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister and the Head of the National Security Council

​James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics, Duke University

​Director General, Ministry of Health

Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)​

Senior Deputy Director General, Ministry of Health​

Senior Correspondent for Military and Intelligence Affairs, Yedioth Ahronoth; Contributing Author, New York Times; Author of New York Times Bestseller "Rise and Kill First"

Editor-in-Chief, Israel Hayom​

​Former Commander, Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria Division, Israel Security Agency (SHABAK)

​Vice President of Intelligence, Sixgill

Senior Lecturer, Political Science, Open University

Co-Director, WIPS - Center for the Advancement of Women in the Public Sphere, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem;
Professor (emerita), Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Chairman, European Leadership Network (ELNET)-France​

Vice President for External Relations and Head of the Raphael Recanati International School, Reichman University​

Senior Investiugative Journalist, "Uvda", Keshet 12​

Chief Executive Officer and President, Geocartography Knowledge Group​

Director, Middle East & Perisan Gulf Intelligence Unit, Security & Defense Analysis Institute, Athens, Greece

​Journalist, Channel 13 TV News

​Chief Executive Officer, Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), USA

Director, Asia Program, Institut Montaigne, France

​Policy Researcher & Special Advisor on Israel, Center for Middle East Public Policy, RAND Corporation

Former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister and Head of the National Security Council​

Former Senior Director at the Prime Minister's Office

​Senior Researcher, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS); Former Ambassador of Israel to the European Union & to Jordan

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), Reichman University

Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa​

Founder & Director, Q Schools Consultation, Development and Education​

Mayor of Herzliya​

​Director, Policy and Government Affairs, AIPAC, USA

​Chairman, Foreign Affairs, Defense & Security Committee of the Senate, Czech Republic

​Graduate Student, Reichman University; Co-Founder, African Students Organization in Israel

Former Minister of Justice​; Professor of Law (Emeritus), Tel Aviv University

Managing Director, Center for Liberal Modernity, Germany

Former Chairwoman of Meretz and Former Member of Knesset

​Chief Executive Officer, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy; Founder & Executive Director, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT); and Ronald Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism, Reichman University

Manager, Hotline in Arabic, Israel Women's Network​

Ambassador, Head, Delegation of the European Union to Israel​

Former Deputy Chief of the IDF General Staff

Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy, Reichman University​

Chief Economist, ​Director of State Revenue, Research and International Affairs, Ministry of Finance

Distinguished Professor and Director, Social Policy Institute, Washington University​ in St. Louis

Senior Research Fellow, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies; Former Commander, IDF Northern Corps​

​Strategic Analyst

​Director, South and Central Asia, Hudson Institute; Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States

Military Correspondent and Defense ​Analyst, Haaretz Daily

Undergraduate Student, The Hebrew University​ of Jerusalem

International Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Director, Forum of Strategic Dialogue (FSD); Former Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defense

​Head of the Healthcare Team, Budget Department, Ministry of Finance

Iran Lecturer, Reichman University

Senior Fellow, Policy Exchange; Former Ambassador of the UK to Saudi Arabia and Senior Diplomatic Arabist at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK

VP Tel Aviv Radio, Sammy Ofer School of Communications, Reichman University

Director, Center for Middle East Public Policy; Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation, USA

Former U.S. Senator for Illionois​

​Dr. A. Klagsbald & Co. Law Offices

​Member, Board of Trustees, Institute for Peace Reseach and Security Policy (IFSH), University of Hamburg; Former Member of the German Parliament, Germany

​Co-Director, Community Development and Social Change Department, Beit Issie Shapiro

Diplomatic Correspondent, Haaretz Daily​

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Deputy Director General for Policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission​

Former Senior Diplomatic Adviser and Sherpa to President Sarkozy, France

​Chief Executive Officer, Shmair Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh Hospital)

Global Affairs Correspondent, The Strait Times, Former Bureau Chief of Reuters in Beijing

TV Anchor and Senior Defense Commentator

​Health Reporter, TheMarker

Director, The Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University​

​Former Acting Prime Minister and Former Minster of Foreign Affairs

Founder, Israel At Heart and Star Farm Ventures​

​Former Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Defense; Senior Advisor, CNS Global Advisors, USA

Dean, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering; Head, Cancer Drug Delivery and Cell Based Technologies, Technion

Head of Diplomacy and Conflict Studies, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy, Reichman University​

Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Former Senior Advisor for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, U.S. State Department

​VP Engineering, Google

Head, Research Asia, Bank Julius Baer​

Alliance Center for Iranian Studies (ACIS), Tel Aviv University​

Payne Distinguished Lecturer, Center for International Security and Cooperation & Freeman Spogli Institute, Standford University; Former Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS, USA

Chief Executive Officer, Link - The Center for Strategic Communication in the Middle East; Journalist and Commentator on Middle Easterm Affairs

​Former Provost, Reichman University; Former Member of the Bank of Israel's Monetary Committee

Undergraduate Student, Reichman University​

​Head, Palestinian Studies Forum, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University

Provost, Reichman University​

​Distinguished Fellow, United Service Institution (USI), India

Lecturer, International Relations, Tel Aviv University; Fellow, Jerusalem Institute for Startegic Studies (JISS)

​Chair, Board of Directors, Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot, Tel Aviv; President, Nadav Foundation

Expert, Medical Law and Health Policy; Lecturer, Tel Aviv University School of Medicine and at the Faculty of Health Systems Management

​Head, Tel Aviv Representative Office, Bank Julius Baer

Former Director of the Mossad​

Former Ambassador of Israel to France and Italy​

Chief Nursing Officer, Clalit Health Services​

Senior Middle East Editor, Yediot Ahronot Daily​

Senior Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)​, USA

Head, Asia-Pacific Section, Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies, Kyiv​, Ukraine

​Head of the Abba Eban Institute for International Diplomacy, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy, Reichman University; Former Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Former Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations; Former Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom

​Former Minister of Health

Senior Diplomatic Commentator, Channel 13 TV News​

Chief Executive Officer, Meuhedet Health Services

Director, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center​, USA

Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Epistema​

Counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow, Washington
Institute for Near East Policy; Former Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf Region; Co-Chair, Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), USA

​IDF Radio Correspondent for Arab Affairs and Minorities

Chief Executive Officer, Maccabi Healthcare Services​

Special Advisor to the Vice Minister of Foriegn Affairs of Italy; Founder & President, Machiavelli Center for Political and Strategical Studies, Italy

​Deputy Director General, International Institute for Security Studies (IISS), UK

Senior Analyst, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; CIO, Acumen Risk​

​Chief Political Analyst & Anchor, Reshet 13 TV; Sammy Ofer School of Communications, Reichman University

​Director, Department for European Multilateral Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Chief Executive Officer, Assuta Medical Centers​

Former Head of Analysis Division, Prime Minister's Office​

​Executive Director, JDC-Israel

Chairman, Assuta Medical Centers​

Senior Political-Diplomatic Commentator, Yedioth A​hronot Daily

Senior Researcher, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS); Former Head of Research Division of the Mossad

​Former Ambassador of Israel to the United States of America

Chief Executive Officer, European Leadership Network (ELNET)-Israel

Chairman, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue, Netanya Academic College; Former Deputy Minister of Defense​

Political Commentator and Chief Anchor, Ynet; Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)​

Rhetoric Expert, Political Communication Scholar, and Head of the Rhetoric Academy, IDC Herzliya​

​Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), Reichman University

Robert Bosch Senior Fellow, Center on the United States and
Europe, Brookings Institution, USA

Senior Research Fellow, MGIMO University​, Moscow, Russia

​Former Member of Knesset

​EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process

​Department of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Deputy Director, Forum of Strategic Dialogue (FSD)​

​President and Chief Executive Officer, Hudson Institute, USA

Head, Planning and Organization, Secretary of the Board, Assuta Medical Centers​

​Founder & Executive Director, SIGNAL - Sino-Israel Global Network and Academic Leadership

Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND​ Corporation; Former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, USA

Department of Arabic Language and Culture; Senior Research Fellow, Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University, China

​Tel Aviv University and the Open University

​Former Head of the Investigations and Intelligence Department of the Israel Police

​Chair, Planning and Budgeting Committee, Council for Higher Education

​Iran Expert, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and Tel Aviv University

Vice Rector & Professor of Contemporary History of the Middle East, Tel Aviv University