Officiated by:

  • H.E. Isaac Herzog

    President of the State of Israel

    GPO - Avi Ohayon

Conference Conveners:

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    Prof. Uriel Reichman

    Founding President and Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Reichman University

    Photo: Danny Dagon

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    Prof. Rafi Melnick

    President Reichman University

    Photo: Gilad Kavalerchik

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    Maj. Gen. (res.)
    Amos Gilead

    Executive Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), Chairman, Annual Herzliya Conference Series, Reichman University

    Photo: Gilad Kavalerchik

Speakers:

  • Hon. Maj. Gen. (res.) Yoav Gallant

    Israeli Minister of Defense

    Photo: Avi Ohayon - GPO

  • Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi

    Chief of the General Staff, IDF

  • Stephanie C. Hill

    Executive Vice President, Rotary and Mission Systems,
    Lockheed Martin, U.S.

  • MK Yair Lapid

    Head of the Israeli Opposition; Former Israeli Prime Minister;
    Yesh Atid

  • MK Lt. Gen. (res.) Benny Gantz

    Former Minister of Defense of Israel; Former IDF Chief
    of General Staff; Head of The National Unity 

    Photo: Eyal Nevo

  • Hon. Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin

    The 10th President of the State Israel

  • H.E Amb. Thomas Nides

    U.S. Ambassador to Israel

  • Dana L. Stroul

    Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Middle East, Department of Defense, U.S.

  • Prof. Nouriel Roubini

    CEO, Roubini Macro Associates LLC; Chief Economist, Atlas Capital Team LP; Co-Founder, Rosa & Roubini Associates; Professor Emeritus, NYU’s Stern School of Business, U.S.

  • H.E. Abderrahim Beyyoudh

    Head of the Liaison Office of the Kingdom of Morocco in Tel Aviv

  • H.E. Dr. Tobias Lindner

    Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, Germany

  • H.E. Amb. Kai Sauer

    Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Security Policy, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland

    Pיhoto: Stenroth0tt0 CC BY-SA 4.0

  • H.E. Fariz Rzayev

    Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Azerbaijan

  • Hon. David van Weel

    Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO

  • Hon. Yoav Kisch

    Israel’s Minister of Education

  • MK Gila Gamliel

    Minister of Intelligence of Israel

  • Maj. Gen. (res.) Eyal Zamir

    Director General of Israel’s
    Ministry of Defense

     

    Photo: Spokesperson's Office - Press Inquiries, Ministry of Defense

  • Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva

    The Head of the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate

    Tomer Jacobson

  • Prof. Yossi Matias

     Vice President, Engineering & Research, Google, Founding Managing Director, Google Center in Israel

  • Arnon Bar-David

    Chair of The Histadrut

    The General Organization
    of Workers in Israel

     

    Photo: The Histadrut - Communication and Advertising Division

  • Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai

    The Chief of Israel Police

  • Dr. Ebtesam Al-Ketbi

    Founder and President, Emirates Policy Center, U.A.E

  • Irina Nevzlin

    Chair, Board of Directors, Anu - Museum of the Jewish People; President, Nadav Foundation; Founder & Chair, Improvate

     

    Photo: Yanai Yechiel 

  • Lt. Gen. (res.) MK Gadi Eisenkot

    Former IDF Chief of General Staff

  • Tamir Pardo

    Former Head of the Mossad

     

    Photo: Ran Biran

  • Maj. Gen. (res.) Amir Eshel

    Former Director General, Israel’s Ministry of Defense;
    Former IAF Commander

     

    Photo: Arik Hermoni

  • MK Yuli (Yoel) Edelstein

    Chair, Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee; Former Speaker of the Knesset; Former Minister of Health; Likud

  • MK Avigdor Liberman

    Head, Yisrael Beiteinu; Former Minister of Finance of Israel; Former Minister of Defense
    of Israel

  • MK Gideon Sa’ar

    Head, New Hope; Former Minister of Justice of Israel

  • Tzachi Hanegbi

    Israel’s National Security Adviser, Head of the National Security Council, Prime Minister’s Office

  • Dr. Ayelet Ben-Ezer

    CEO & Vice President,
    Reichman University

     

    Photo: Daniel Strabo

  • Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin

    Former Commander of the Israeli Air Force (IAF)

    Photo: Or Perevoznik

  • Prof. Varda Liberman

    Provost; Head & Director of the MBA in Healthcare Innovation, Reichman University

  • Dr. Eyal Hulata

    Former Head of Israel’s Security Council and National Security Adviser, Prime Minister’s Office

     

    Photo: Haim Tzach - GPO

  • Deputy Commissioner Sigal Bar Zvi

    Director, Operations Division,
    Israel Police

     

    Photo: Israel Police

  • Barak Regev

    Managing Director, Google Israel

  • Yoram Cohen

    Former Director, Israel Security Agency (ISA)

  • Commissioner (ret.) Roni Alsheich

    Former Chief of Israel Police

     

    Photo: Shlomi Amsalem

  • H.E. Amb. Dimiter Tzantchev

    Ambassador of the European Union to the State of Israel

  • Hon. Carl Bildt

    Former Prime Minister of Sweden

  • Hon. Ivan Lewis

    Former UK Shadow Secretary of State, The Labour Party; CEO of The Focus Foundation, CEO of IL Associates, UK

  • Amb. Mark A. Green

    President & CEO, Wilson Center, Washington DC, U.S.

  • Hon. Moshe Fadlon

    Mayor of Herzliya

  • Prof. Boaz Ganor

    Founder & Executive Director, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), Ronald Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism, Reichman University

     

    Photo: Gilad Kavalerchik

  • Prof. Alex Mintz

    Director of the Computerized Decision-Making Lab; Former Provost, Reichman University

  • Prof. Assaf Moghadam

    Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Reichman University

  • Jonathan Davis

    Vice-President for External Relations & Head of the Raphael Recanati International School, Reichman University

  • Hon. Prof. Mark Dybul, MD

    Chief Strategy Officer, Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, Georgetown University Medical Center, U.S.

  • Prof. Jonathan Gershoni

    Professor of Virology and Immunology, Tel Aviv University

  • Prof. Gili Regev-Yochay

    Head, Infection Prevention and Control Units; Director, Sheba Pandemic Research Institute (SPRI), Sheba Medical Center

  • Prof. Arnon Afek

    Associate Director, Sheba Medical Center; Founding Dean of the Dina Recanati School of Medicine, Reichman University; Former Director Ministry of Health

  • Joey Low

    Founder of “Israel At Heart” and Star Farm Ventures

  • Hon. Prof. Irwin Cotler

    Canada's Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism, Former Minister of Justice, Canada

     

    Photo: Jindřich-Nosek-NoJinCC-BY-SA-4

  • Prof. Yisrael Aumann

    Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences; Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

     

    Photo: Sharon Ben Tov

  • Gen. (ret.) Mansour Abu Rashid

    Chairperson, Amman Center for Peace and Development, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

  • Abdalaziz Al-Khamis

    Saudi Journalist; Middle East, Arabian Gulf and Islamic Movements Researcher; Facts4All

  • Abdulla Al-Junaid

    Writer and Political Researcher, Bahrain

  • Antonia Dimou

    Director, Middle East and Persian Gulf Unit, Institute for Security and Defense Analysis, Greece

  • MK David Bitan

    Chair, Knesset Economic Affairs Committee, Likud

  • H.E. Amir Hayek

    Israel’s Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates

  • Prof. Jacob Frenkel

    Former Governor of the Bank of Israel; Chairman, JPMorgan Chase International; Chairman and CEO, Group of Thirty (G-30)

  • Shlomo Dovrat

    Co-Founder & General Partner, Viola Ventures

  • Prof. Zvi Eckstein

    Dean, Tiomkin School of Economics; Head, Aaron Economic Policy Institute,
    Reichman University

     

    Photo: Oren Shalev

  • Ram Gev

    CFO, Deputy CEO, Bank Hapoalim

  • Amb. Dr. Dennis Ross

    Distinguished Fellow, Washington Institute; Former Special Assistant to President Obama and White House Coordinator for the Middle East and the Persian Gulf Region, U.S.

  • Gideon Frank

    Former Director General of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission; Chair, Technion Council

  • Tal Harel Matatyahu

    Chief of Staff of the Supervisor of Banks & Director of the Strategy and Special Projects Unit,
    Bank of Israel

  • Eden Shochat

    Equal Partner, Aleph

    Aleph-Headshots

  • Prof. Eyal Zimlichman

    Chief Transformation Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Founder and Director of ARC,
    Sheba Medical Center

  • MK Dr. Mansour Abbas

    Head, United Arab List (Ra’am)

  • Rabbi Shai Piron

    President, Pnima Movement; Former Minister of
    Education of Israel

     

    Photo: Keren Gafni

  • Nadav Zafrir

    Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Team8 Group

     

    Photo: Adi Lamm

  • Ranin Mordi

    Head of the Bank Hapoalim Center for Financial Growth

  • Dr. Shmuel Abramzon

    Senior Deputy to Chief Economist, Israel’s Ministry of Finance

  • Hon. Roderich Kiesewetter

    Member of the German Parliament (CDU)

  • Christian Gattiker-Ericsson

    CFA, CAIA, Chief Investment Strategist and Global Head of Research, Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd., Switzerland

  • Richard Goldberg

    Senior Advisor, FDD; Former Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction, White House, NSC, U.S.

  • Tair Ifergan

    Director General, Ministry of labor

    Photo: Or paravoznik

  • Eran Yariv

    Partner Group Engineering Manager, MS Search Assistant & Intelligence, Microsoft, Israel

  • Prof. Shai Shwartz

    Chief Technology Officer, Mobileye

  • Dr. Beatrice Gorawantschy

    Director, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Israel

  • Dr. Kenneth R. Weinstein

    Walter P. Stern Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, DC; Founding Chair & CEO, Indo-Pacific Forum, U.S.

  • Eyal Naveh

    Brothers in Arms

  • Brig. Gen. (res.) Amir Haskel

    The Individuals’ Protest

  • Dr. Benedetta Berti

    Head of Policy Planning in the Office of the Secretary General, NATO

     

    Photo: Bret Hartman TED

  • Adv. Mariam Kabaha

    The Israeli Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, Ministry of Economy and Industry

  • Prof. Boaz Ben David

    Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Reichman University

     

    Photo: Shlomi Yosef

  • Moran Zer Katzenstein

    Founder, Bonot Alternativa

     

    Photo: Gal-Or

  • Dr. Adv. Eliad Shraga

    Founder & Chair, The Movement for Quality Government in Israel

  • Dr. Dana Wolf

    Head of the Law and Security Program, Lauder School of Government Diplomacy and Strategy, Reichman University

     

    Photo: Gabriel Baharlia

  • Amb. Bilahari Kausikan

    Ambassador-at-Large; Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore; Chairman, Board of Directors, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore

  • Boaz Levy

    CEO, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)

  • Oleksiy Arestovych

    Former Advisor to the Office of the President of Ukraine

    Photo: President.gov.ua-CC BY 4.0-23

  • Brig. Gen. (res.) Dr. Ephraim Sneh

    Former Deputy Minister of Defense

    Photo: Reuven Kopitchinski 

  • Eyal Waldman

    Chairman, Waldo Holdings; Former President & CEO of Mellanox

  • Saul Singer

    Co-author of the Bestseller - Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

  • Erez Shachar

    Managing Partner, Qumra Capital

  • Eldad Tamir

    CEO, Tamir Fishman
    Investment House

     

    Photo: Saray Oz

  • David Makovsky

    Director, Koret Project on Arab-Israel Relations, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, U.S.

  • David Horovitz

    Founding Editor,
    The Times of Israel

     

    Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski

  • Dr. Ronen Bergman

    Journalist and National Security Commentator, Yedioth Ahronoth; The New York Times

     

    Photo: Dor Malka

  • Ben Caspit

    Journalist and Senior Commentator, Maariv, Radio 103, “Meet the Press”, Channel 12 News

     

    Photo: Yossi Aloni

  • Dr. Michal Yaari

    Gulf States Expert, Open University; Ben Gurion University

     

    Photo: Tomer Epelbaum

  • Liat Regev

    Journalist & Anchor, Kan 11 - The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation & Reshet Bet Radio

     

    Photo: Micha Loubaton

  • Udi Segal

    Chief Political Correspondent & Anchor, Channel 13 News; Sammy Ofer School of Communications, Reichman University

     

    Ran Yehezkel

  • Lucy Aharish

    Journalist, TV Presenter and Actress

  • Adv. Moshe Lador

    Former State Attorney of Israel

  • Deputy Commissioner (ret.) David Tsur

    Former Head of Israel’s Counter-Terror Unit; Former Head of the Israel Border Police, Former Commander of the Tel Aviv District, Israel Police

  • Prof. Yossi Leshem

    Founder & Director, The International Center for the Study of Bird Migration, Latrun, Israel

     

    Photo: Oren Cohen

  • Eric Lynn

    Former Senior Advisor to U.S. Secretary of Defense

  • H.E. Jonatan Vseviov

    Secretary General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia

  • Prof. Alexandre Roulin

    Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Dr. Amnon Cavari

    Head, Institute for Liberty and Responsibility, The American Public Opinion Research Lab,
    Reichman University

     

    Photo: Gilad Kavalerchik

  • Sima Shine

    Senior Researcher & Head of the Iran Program, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)

  • Dr. Micah Goodman

    Writer and Jewish Philosophy Scholar; Author of Catch 67

     

    Photo: yonit Schiller

  • Danny E. Sebright

    President, U.S.-U.A.E.
    Business Council

  • Shaul Amsterdamski

    Senior Economic Editor, Kan - The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation

  • Matan Hodorov

    Chief Economic Commentator, Channel 13 News

     

    Photo: Ronen Akerman

  • Deputy Commissioner (ret.) Meni Itzhaki

    Former Head of the Investigations and Intelligence Department,
    Israel Police

  • Issawi Frej

    Former Minister of Regional Cooperation of Israel

    Mark Newman - GPO

  • Nir Dvori

    Security & Army Correspondent, Channel 12 News

  • Yaakov Katz

    Former Editor-in-Chief, The Jerusalem Post

    Photo: U.S. Department of State

  • Eman Safady

    Journalist and Political Commentator

  • Baruch Kra

    Law Correspondent & Commentator, Channel 13 News

     

    Photo: Ran Yehezkeli

  • Roi Kais

    Arab Affairs Correspondent, Kan 11 - The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation

  • Dr. Emmanuel Navon

    CEO, The European Leadership Network (ELNET)

  • Prof. Yossi Shain

    Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University; Georgetown University, Washington D.C.; Assistant to the President and a Representative of Brandeis University in Israel

  • Dr. Moran Ofir

    Senior Lecturer & Researcher, Reichman University

  • MK Yorai Lahav Hertzanu

    Chairman of the LGBTQ and Environment Caucuses, Knesset Israel

  • Dr. Arik Rudnitzky

    Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies,
    Tel Aviv University

  • Oren Nahari

    Journalist, Foreign News Commentator, Non Fiction Writer

     

    Photo: Ariel Nahari

  • Almaz Mangisto

    Reporter & Anchor, Channel 12 News

  • Arad Nir

    International Commentator and Foreign Editor, Chanel 12 News

    Photo: Eyalbenyaish

  • Ksenia Svetlova

    Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council; Executive Director, Ropes; Former Knesset Member

  • Tal Shalev

    Political correspondent, Walla!News

  • Sami Peretz

    Senior Writer and Commentator; Former Chief Editor, TheMarker

  • Sefi Ovadia

    Political Correspondent & Commentator, Channel 13 News

  • Limor Pinhasov

    Director at Independent Film & Television Alliance

  • Shimon Shiffer

    Senior Political Commentator, Yedioth Ahronoth

  • Ronny Linder

    Health Reporter, TheMarker

  • Eli Bar-On

    Co-Founder & Executive Director, MENA2050

  • Hava Tizazu

    Actress and Social Activist

  • Lior Akerman

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

  • Dr. Shay Har-Zvi

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

     

    Photo: Gilad Kavalerchik

  • Dr. Michael Milshtein

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

  • Avi Mimran

    Radio Kol Chai

    Photo: Yonatan Halperin

  • Oded Leopold

    Actor and Musician; Mediation and Crisis Management Expert

  • Atalia Toronto

    Vice Chairperson Student Union, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy,
    Reichman University

  • Tal Cohen

    Student, School of Sustainability, Reichman University

Conference Moderators:

  • Roni (Fantanesh) Malkai

    Social Activist, Attorney & Journalist

  • Ms. Sharon Wexler

    Kan 11 - The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation