Conference Conveners:

Prof. Uriel Reichman Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Gilead

President & Founder, IDC Herzliya Executive Director, Institute for Policy and Strategy, and Chairman of the Annual Herzliya

Conference Series, IDC Herzliya

Officiated by:

H.E. Reuven (Ruvi) Rivlin

President of the State of Israel

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Incumbent Office-Holders

Commissioner Roni Alsheikh MK Yuli-Yoel Edelstein Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot

General Commissioner of the Israel Police Speaker of the Knesset IDF Chief of the General Staff

H.E. Khairat Hazem Mr. Moshe Kahlon MK Israel Katz Ambassador of Egypt to Israel Minister of Finance Minister of Intelligence and Transport

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Rabbi David Lau Mr. Avigdor Liberman Hon. Brett McGurk

Chief Rabbi of Israel Minister of Defense Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, U.S. Department of State

Dr. Antonio Missiroli Hon. Judge (ret.)

Joseph H. Shapira Assistant Secretary General of NATO for

Emerging Security Challenges State Comptroller and Ombudsman

Dr. Muhammad Al-Nabari Prof. Dmitry Adamsky Mr. Elliott Abrams

Mayor of Hura Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

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Prof. Graham Allison Mr. Dov Amitay Prof. Pinhas Alpert

Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School

President, Farmers' Federation of Israel Department of Geophysics, Tel-Aviv University

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Dr. Amiram Appelbaum Prof. Uzi Arad Prof. Moshe Arens

Chief Scientist, Ministry of Economy and Industry; Chairman, Israel Innovation Authority

Former Head of the National Security Council and National Security Advisor

to the Prime Minister

Former Minister of Defense

Mr. Yarom Ariav Prof. Shlomo Avineri MK Rachel Azaria

Executive Chairman of Lavi Capital and former Director General of the Ministry Of Finance

Professor of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"Kulanu" Party

Adv. Shlomit Berhanu Prof. Amatzia Baram Mr. Nir Barkat

Social Activist Emeritus Professor, Founder and Director of the Center for Iraq, University of Haifa

Mayor of Jerusalem

V.Admiral (res.)

David Ben Bashat Prof. Dan Ben-David Maj Gen. (res.) Eitan Ben-Eliahu

Former Commander in Chief of the Israeli Navy

Department of Public Policy, Tel-Aviv University; President and Founder, Shoresh

Institution for Socioeconomic Research

Former Commander-in-Chief of the Israel Air Force

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Dr. Ayelet Ben-Ezer Maj Gen. (res.) Prof.

Isaac Ben-Israel MK Maj Gen. (res.) Eyal Ben-

Reuven Vice President for Administration & Students,

IDC Herzliya Director The Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber

Research Center and Head of Security Studies Program, Tel Aviv University

Member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and Former Commander of the IDF

Northern Corps

Mr. Ron Ben-Yishai Prof. Ofra Bengio Dr. Ronen Bergman

National Security Commentator, Ynetnews Head of the Kurdish Studies Program The Moshe Dayan Center

for Middle Eastern and African Studies Tel Aviv University

Senior Correspondent for Military and Intelligence Affairs, Yedioth Ahronoth; Contributing Writer, New York Times

Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman Mr. Michael Biton Maj. Gen. (res.) Ilan Biran

President, Yeshiva University

Mayor of Yerucham Former Director General of the Ministry of Defense; Former Chairman of Refael

Mr. Boaz Bismuth Dr. Oded Brosh Brig. Gen. (res.) Itai Brun

Editor-in-Chief, Israel Hayom Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), IDC Herzliya

Former head of IDF Intelligence Analysis Division

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Mr. Ronnie C. Chan Dr. Raphael S. Cohen Mr. Yoram Cohen Thought Leader; Chairman, Hang Lung

Properties Ltd. Political Scientist, RAND Corporation Former Director of the Israeli Security Agency

(SHABAK)

Dr. Ben Connable Mr. Jonathan Davis Prof. Avi Degani

Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation Vice President for External Affairs and Head of the Raphael Recanati International School,

IDC Herzliya

CEO & President, Geocartography Knowledge Group

Brig. Gen. (res.) Udi Dekel Ms. Lizy Delaricha Ms. Antonia L. Dimou

Managing Director and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)

Mayor of Ganey Tikva Head of Middle East Unit, Institute for Security and Defense Analyses

Dr. Shira Efron Dr. Israel Elad-Altman Ms. Emily Elhacham

Policy Researcher and Special Advisor on Israel, RAND Corporation

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), IDC Herzliya

Researcher, at the Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University

MK Karin Elharrar Prof Haggai Erlich Mr. Moshe Fadlon

“Yesh Atid” Party Professor Emeritus, History of the Middle East and Africa, Tel-Aviv University

Mayor of Herzliya

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

MK Esawi Frej Dr. Anita Friedman Prof. Doron Friedman

"Meretz" Party Executive Director, Jewish Family and Children’s Service of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

Head of the Advanced Reality Lab, Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC Herzliya

Mr. Avi Gabbay Prof. Boaz Ganor Adv. Michal Gera Margaliot

Chairman of the Labor Party and of the Zionist Camp

Dean, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy; Founder & Executive Director,

Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), Ronald Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism,

IDC Herzliya

Managing Director of the Israel Women's Network

Major Gen. (ret.)

Gershon HaCohen Dr. Ori Goldberg Mr. Ilan S. Goldenberg

Research Fellow, The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies; Former Commander of the

Military Academies; Former Commander of the IDF Northern Corps

Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), IDC Herzliya National Security

Commentator, Ynet

Director of the Middle East Security Program, Center for New American Security

Rabbi Pinchas Goldshmidt Mr. Oded Granot Mr. Eli Groner Chief Rabbi of Moscow & Head of the

Rabbinical Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States; President of the

Conference of European Rabbis

Journalist. Middle East and International commentator

Director General, Prime Minister’s Office

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Dr. Yoel Guzansky Prof. SU Hao Amb. Husain Haqqani

Senior fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS); Visiting Fellow,

Stanford University

Director, Center for Strategic and Peace Studies, China Foreign Affairs University

Director, South and Central Asia, Hudson Institute

Photo: Hudson photographer

Mr. Amos Harel Dr. Beatrice Hasler Brig. Gen. (res.) Michael Herzog

Senior Military Correspondent and Defense Analyst, Haaretz

The Advanced Reality Lab, Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC Herzliya

International Fellow, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

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Mr. Jacky Hugi Dr. Ofer Israeli Maj. Gen. (res.) David Ivry

Arab Affairs Editor, IDF Radio Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), IDC Herzliya

President, Boeing Israel

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Mr. Meir Javedanfar Lt. Gen. VG Khandare, PVSM, AVSM SM

Amb. Bilahari Kausikan

Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Owner and Editor, Iran-

Israel Observer

Former Director General of the Indian Defence Intelligence Agency and Former Deputy Chief

of the Indian Integrated Defence Staff

Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore; and Chairman, Board of

Directors, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Dr. Dalia Dassa Kaye Amb. Tom Kelly Senator Mark Kirk

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

Vice President, Foreign Policy & National Security Affairs,

Raytheon International Inc. (RII)

Senior advisor, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI)

MK Nurit Koren Mr. Daniel Landau MK Yair Lapid

"Likud" Party Researcher and Artist, The Advanced Reality Lab, Sammy Ofer School of Communications,

IDC Herzliya

Chairperson, “Yesh Atid” Party; Former Minister of Finance

Dr. Noam Lemelshtrich-Latar Hon. Marcel Lettre Dr. Ariel (Eli) Levite Founding Dean and Chair of the Daniel Pearl

International Journalism Institute, Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC Herzliya

Vice President for National Security, Lockheed Martin; Former U.S. Under Secretary of

Defense for Intelligence

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former

Principal Deputy Director General for Policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission

Prof. Leo Leiderman Dr. Alon Levkowitz Ms. Tali Lipkin-Shahak Tel-Aviv University and Chief Economic Advisor,

Bank Hapoalim Chair, Department of Social Sciences and Civics,

Beit-Berl College; Research Fellow, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies,

Bar-Ilan University

Journalist, Broadcaster, Head of Defense Desk at Galei Tzahal (IDF Radio)

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Hon. Mary Beth Long Mr. Joey Low Mr. David B. Makovsky

Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs;

Co-Founder & Principal, Global Alliance Advisors, LLC ;Founder & Principal, M B Long &

Associates, PLLC

Founder, “Israel at Heart”; Founder, Star Farm Ventures

Ziegler Distinguished Fellow Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process Irwin Levy Family Program on the U.S.-Israel Strategic

Relationship, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Dr. Yossi Mann Dr. Ronit Marzan Dr. Shavit Matias

Chairman of the Department of Middle East Studies at Bar Ilan University

Research Fellow, Chaikin Chair in Geostrategy, University of Haifa; Research Associate, The

Forum for Regional Thinking

Former Deputy Attorney General of Israel, Head of the Global Affairs and Conflict

Resolution Program at the Lauder School of Government IDC Herzliya; Fellow at the Hoover

Institution Stanford University Photo: Micha Brikman

Dr. Sharona Mazalian Levi Prof. Yoram Meital Prof. Rafi Melnick

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

Chair of The Chaim Herzog Center for Middle Eastern Studies & Diplomacy,

Ben-Gurion University

Tiomkin School of Economics and Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy,

IDC Herzliya

Prof. Alex Mintz Prof. Shaul Mishal MK Shuli Moalem-Refaeli

Provost, IDC Herzliya; President, Israeli Political Science Association; Director, The Initiative for

an Inclusive Israeli Society

Head of Middle East Studies, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy,

IDC Herzliya

"Habayit Hayehudi" Party

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Dr. Amit Mor Ms. Sigal Moran Brig. Gen. (res.) Prof.

Jacob (Yaacov) Nagel CEO, Eco-Energy; Lauder School of

Government, Diplomacy & Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Mayor of Bnei Shimon Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion; Former Head of the National Security Council

and National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister

Mr. Adi Nes Ms. Irina Nevzlin Hon. Amb. Victoria Nuland

Photographer and International Artist Chair of the Board of Directors of the Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot;

President of the Nadav Foundation

Chief Executive Officer, Center for New American Security; Former U.S. Assistant

Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs

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MK Amir Ohana Mr. Tamir Pardo Mr. Sami Peretz

"Likud" Party Former Head of the Mossad Senior Writer and Commentator and Former Editor, TheMarker

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Ms. Smadar Perry Mr. Ophir Pines-Paz Amb. Ron Prosor

Senior Middle East Editor, Yediot Ahronot The head of Local Government Institute, Tel Aviv University; Former Minister of Interior

Head of the Abba Eban Institute for International Diplomacy, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy, IDC Herzliya; Former Israel's Representative

to the United Nations

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Mr. John A. Raine Mr. Matthew A. Rojansky Mr. Amir Rapaport

Senior Consulting Fellow, IISS Director, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center

Founder & Editor of IsraelDefense and Cybertech

Amb. Jacob Rosen Amb. Dr. Dennis Ross Adv. Gideon Sa'ar

Former Ambassador of Israel to Jordan 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

Former Minister of Interior; Former Minister of Education

Maj. Gen. (res.) Dr.

Yom Tov Samia Ms. Tal Schneider Prof. Michal Schwartz

Former Commander of IDF Southern Command; Founder & Owner, Y. Sam Group

Diplomatic and Political Correspondent, Globes The Maurice and Ilse Katz Professorial Chair in Neuroimmunology, Weizmann Institute

of Science; President, International Society of Neuroimmunology

Photo: Yossi Zwecke Photo: Belfer Center

Dr. Andrew C. Scobell MK Dr. Nachman Shai Ms. Tal Shalev

Chairman of the Lobby for Strengthening the Jewish People

Political correspondent, Walla! News

Photo: Moshe Shai

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Maj. Gen. (res.) Gadi Shamni Maj. Gen. Jonathan Shaw CB CBE Col. (res.) Dr. Shaul Shay Executive Vice President of Land Systems, Israel

Aerospace Industries ; Former IDF Commander of the Central

Command, Military Secretary to the Prime Minister, and Defense Attaché to the U.S.

Chairman, Optima; Former U.K. Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Policy)

Director of Research, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), IDC Herzliya; Former Deputy

Head of the National Security Council

Brig. Gen. (res.) Prof.

Joshua (Shuki) Shemer Ms. Sima Shine MK Itzik Shmuli

Chairman, Assuta Medical Centers Network; Chairman, Supervisory Council of the Bank of

Israel; Former Director General of the Ministry of Health

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS); Former Deputy Director

General of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs

"Zionist Union" Party

Amb. Zalman Shoval Prof. Arnon Soffer Mr. Attila Somfalvi*

Former Ambassador of Israel to the U.S. Professor Emeritus of Geography, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies,

University of Haifa

Political Analyst and Chief Anchor, Ynetnews and YnetTV

Mr. Tommy Steiner Ms. Izabella Tabarovsky Mr. Andrew J. Tabler

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), IDC Herzliya

Senior Program Associate, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center

Martin J. Gross Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

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MK Adv. Pnina Tamano-Shata Prof. Charles Tenenbaum Ms. Keren Turner-Eyal

“Yesh Atid” Party; Social Activist Associate Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po Lille

CEO, Ministry of Transport and Road Safety

Mr. Chagai Tzuriel Mr. Moav Vardi Ms. Ruth Wasserman Lande

Director General of the Ministry of Intelligence Chief International Affairs Correspondent, Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation

Deputy Director General for International Affairs, Federation of Local Authorities in Israel;

Former Israeli Diplomat at the Embassy of Israel to Egypt

Mr. Kenneth R. Weinstein Ms. Dana Weiss Dr. Chaim B. Weizmann

President and CEO, Hudson Institute Chief Political Analyst and Anchor, Israel Television News Company

Senior Research Fellow, IPS, Academic advisor & Senior subject-matter expert, The Inclusive

Israeli Society Initiative, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy (IPS),

IDC Herzliya Photo: Eyal Ben Yaish

Dr. Michal Yaari Lt. Gen. (res.)

Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon Prof. Yoav Yair

Tel Aviv University The Open University

Former Chief of Staff of the IDF and Former Israel's Defense Minister

Dean, School of Sustainability Founded by Israel Corp., ICL & ORL, IDC Herzliya

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Mr. Eliyahu (Eli) Yishai Maj. Gen. (ret.) Meni Yitshaki MK Tamar Zandberg

Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior; Yachad Party Chairman

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

Chairperson of "Meretz"

Dr. Ronen Zeidel Prof. Yaffa Zilbershats Prof. Eyal Zisser

Researcher of Iraq, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies and

Research Fellow, Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), IDC Herzliya

Chair, Planning and Budgeting Committee, Council for Higher Education

Vice Rector, Tel Aviv university; Prof. for Middle Eastern Studies

Photo: Council for Higher Education in Israel

Prof. Irina Zvyagelskaya

Chief Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Expert,

Valdai Discussion Club, Moscow