Conference Program
Our program is not yet final and may be subject to change.
Most lectures will be held in Hebrew, with simultaneous translation available to all conference guests.
Lectures marked with an asterisk (*) will be held in English.
08:30
Registration
09:15
Tikvah Fund Israel CEO Amiad Cohen
A Vision for Israeli Conservatism
Amiad Cohen, Director-General of Tikvah Israel, on the vitality of Israeli society, its faith in life, and the growing need for an intellectual, cultural and ideological foundation for the conservative sentiment that most Israelis intuitively hold.
09:55
Prof. Victor Davis Hanson in conversation with Caroline Glick
"The Western Citizen: Dying or Reborn?"*
10:40
Political analyst Amit Segal
The Ideas Shaping Our Political Reality
11:10
Former Israeli National Security Advisor Meir Ben-Shabbat
Lessons from the War in Ukraine: Being Right Isn't Enough
11:35
Break
12:00
Dr. Rafi Bitton, Adv. Amit Hadad, Adv. Yehuda Shaffer. Moderator: Israel Law & Liberty Forum executive director Yonatan Green
Former MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh, Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Tikvah Fund CEO Eric Cohen. Moderator: Rabbi Uri Einhorn
Dr. Sagi Barmak. Moderator: Ricky Maman. More speakers TBD.
Author, screenwriter, director and radio host Irit Linur, author and professor Dr. Gadi Taub, media personality Shay Golden. Moderator: Roy Iddan
Chief of Israel Police (ret.) Yoram Halevy, immigration expert Yonatan Yakubowitz, investigative journalist Akiva Bigman. Moderator: social innovator Sarah Haetzni Cohen
13:15
Lunch
14:30
Scholar and lecturer Dr. Mordechai Kedar, civic leader Nael Zoabi, lieutenant colonel (Res.) Walid Alhuzail. Moderator: Tal Heinrich.
Author, screenwriter, director and radio host Irit Linur, Broadcaster Jacob Bardugo, Senior journalist Ya’akov Ahimeir. Moderator: radio host Yotam Zimri.
Prof Talia Einhorn, Prof. Moshe Koppel, Dr. Ronen Shoval. Moderator: radio host and author Erez Tadmor
Media entrepreneur and philanthropist, Eli Paley; writer and editor, Maayan David Meir. Moderator: Tzarich Iyun founder and editor Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer
15:45
Break
16:15
Khaled Yousif al-Jalahma, Bahrain's ambassador of to Israel, Binyamin Zomer, Nofar Energy CEO Ofer Yannay. Moderator: Nave Dromi.
Energy, Environment, and War*
17:30
