8:30-9:00Arrival & Refreshments


9:00-9:30 Opening Remarks

· Prof. Joseph Ginat, Vice President of International Relations and Research, Director, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue.

· Att. Zaki Kamal, Advisor to the Directory Board,
S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue.

· Prof. Zvi Arad, President, Netanya Academic College.

· Mr. Hermann Bünz, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Representative in Israel.



9:30-11:15 Iranian Society – History and Social Developments

Panel Chair: Dr. Anat First, Dean of the School of Communications, Netanya Academic College.


· HE Ambassador Uri Lubrani, former head of Israel's mission to Iran – "Iran's Compounded Threats."

· HE Amb. Reuven Merchav, Council for Peace and Security, former Director-General of the Foreign Ministry – lecture topic to be determined.*

· Dr. Gil Feiler, BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University – "Recent Economic Developments in Iran."

· Dr. Brenda Shaffer, Department of East Asia Studies, University of Haifa – "Iran's Minorities in the Shadow of the Nuclear Crisis." *

· Mr. Meir Javedanfar, Director of MEEPAS (Middle East Economic and Political Analysis) and co-author of The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran – "Relations between Ayatollah Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Strengths, Weaknesses, and the Future".

· Dr. Aharon Zohar, PUGWASH, Integrated Regional and Environmental Planning - "Iranian oil crisis and its influence on the Iranian Policy".



11:15-11:45 Recess

11:45-13:00 The Iranian Muslim Revolution – Ideology Then and Now

Panel Chair: Dr. Yair Hirschfeld, Director General, ECF (Economic Cooperation Foundation), Professor of Middle East History, University of Haifa.


· Dr. Soli Shahvar, Acting Head, the Meir & Miriam Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf studies, University of Haifa – "The Iranian Regime: Threats and Counter-Threats". *

· Mr. Menashe Amir, Chief Editor of the Foreign Ministry Persian Language Web site – "Iranian Citizens and the Nuclear Program".

· Prof. David Menashri, Head of the Center for Iranian Studies, Tel-Aviv University – lecture topic to be determined.



13:00-14:00 Lunch Break



14:00-15:30 The Arab World and Iran

Panel Chair: Mr. Hermann Bünz, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Representative in Israel.

· Prof. Amatzia Baram, Department of Middle East History, University of Haifa - "Iraq in Iran, Iran in Iraq can the Siamese twins co-exist peacefully?"

· Prof. Joseph Kostiner, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel-Aviv University - "The Fortunes of a Regional Coordinator: Saudi Arabia's Responses to Iran's Growing Power".

· Prof. Eyal Zisser, Head of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel-Aviv University – "Syria's Dilemma: Between Washington and Tehran".

· Dr. Wasfi Kailani, Truman Institute, Hebrew University – “Iran and the Arab World after the Second Gulf War: Eye on/from Jordan."

15:30-16:00Recess

16:00-17:30 The Iranian Nuclear Program

Panel Chair: Dr. Liora Hendelman-Baavur, Research Fellow at the Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University.


· HE Amb. O. Faruk Loğoğlu, PhD., former Ambassador of Turkey to the United States, President, Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies (ASAM) – "A Turkish Perspective on the Iranian Nuclear Program."

· Dr. Ronen Bergman, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, Senior Staff Investigative Journalist, Yedioth Ahronoth – "Fighting Nuclear Iran: The Failure of Western Intelligence"

· Dr. Emily Landau, Senior Research Associate, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel-Aviv University – "International Diplomatic Efforts to Stop Iran from Going Nuclear".

· Dr. Ephraim Kam, Deputy Head of the Institute for National Security Studies, Tel-Aviv University – "Can We Live with a Nuclear Iran?"



17:30 Keynote Speaker: Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Shaul Mofaz, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister in Charge of Strategic Dialogue.*



18:00 Concluding Remarks: Dr. Reuven Pedatzur, Academic Director, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue.



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* Speaker's participation has not yet been fully confirmed.



Minor changes in the program are expected.



All Lectures will be delivered in English with simultaneous translation to Hebrew.



Please confirm your participation by October 20, 2007 via the enclosed confirmation form.



Academic Director: Dr. Reuven Pedatzur

Conference Director: Ms. Aviva Palter

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