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8:30 am – 9:00 am: Registration
9:00 am – 9:10 am: Greeting
Amb. Dore Gold
President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
State Secretary (ret.) Michael Mertes
Director, Israel Office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
9:10 am – 9:30 am: Opening Session
Was There a Change in European Policy towards Israel?
Amb. Lars Faaborg-Andersen
Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Israel
9:30 am – 10:45 am: First Session
Mutual Interests in Economy, Energy and Research
Chair: Dr. Gil Yaron
Middle East аnalyst and аuthor
Saul Singer
Co-author of Start-up Nation
Dan Catarivas
Director, Foreign Trade & International Relations, Manufacturers Association of Israel
Shraga Brosh
Chairman of the Israel Employment Service; Chairman of the J. Brosh Industrial Group; Former President, Manufacturers Association of Israel
10:45 am – 11:15 am: Coffee Break
11:15 am – 12:00 pm: Second Session
Security and Strategy: Shared Strategic Threats
Chair: Amb. Zvi Mazel
Former Israeli Ambassador to Egypt, Sweden and Rоmania; Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah
Former Advisor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Deputy Head for Assessment of Israeli Military Intelligence
Uzi Rubin
Former Director, Israel Missile Defense Organization, Israeli Ministry of Defense; currently associate researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Third Session
Is Anti-Semitism a Factor?
Chair: Dr. Efraim Zuroff
Director, Simon Wiesenthal Center – Israel Office
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld
Member of the Steering Committee of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Prof. Robert Wistrich
Head of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch Break
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Closing Panel
A Look Ahead: What Can Be Done in Order to Improve Future Cooperation?
Chair: Amb. Freddy Eytan
Director of the Europe Project at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Prof. Shlomo Avineri
Hebrew University; Former Director- General of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Robin Shepherd
Director of International Affairs at the Henry Jackson Society, London
Mark Gallagher
Deputy Chief of Mission of the Delegation of the European Union to Israel and Head of the Political Section
Rafi Schutz
Deputy Director General for Western Europe, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Fiamma Nirenstein
Italian politician, journalist and author; Fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
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