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

Photo: Spokesperson unit of the President of Israel

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

Prof. Dmitry Adamsky Mr. Elliott Abrams Prof. Graham Allison

Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya

Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School

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Mr. Dov Amitay Prof. Pinhas Alpert Dr. Amiram Appelbaum

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

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

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Prof. Uzi Arad Prof. Moshe Arens Mr. Yarom Ariav

Former Head of the National Security Council and National Security Advisor

to the Prime Minister

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

Prof. Shlomo Avineri MK Rachel Azaria Adv. Shlomit Berhanu Professor of Political Science,

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "Kulanu" Party Social Activist

Prof. Amatzia Baram Mr. Nir Barkat V. Admiral (res.)

David Ben Bashat Emeritus Professor, Founder and Director of

the Center for Iraq, University of Haifa Mayor of Jerusalem Former Commander in Chief

of the Israeli Navy

Prof. Dan Ben-David Maj. Gen. (res.)

Eitan Ben-Eliahu Dr. Ayelet Ben-Ezer

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

Institution for Socioeconomic Research

Former Commander-in-Chief of the Israel Air Force

Vice President for Administration & Students, IDC Herzliya

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Maj Gen. (res.) Prof.

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

Reuven Mr. Ron Ben-Yishai

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

National Security Commentator, Ynetnews

Prof. Ofra Bengio Dr. Ronen Bergman Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman

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

President, Yeshiva University

Mr. Michael Biton Maj. Gen. (res.) Ilan Biran Mr. Boaz Bismuth

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

Editor-in-Chief, Israel Hayom

Dr. Oded Brosh Brig. Gen. (res.) Itai Brun Mr. Ronnie C. Chan

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

Former head of IDF Intelligence Analysis Division

Thought Leader; Chairman, Hang Lung Properties Ltd.

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Dr. Raphael S. Cohen Mr. Yoram Cohen Dr. Ben Connable

Political Scientist, RAND Corporation Former Director of the Israeli Security Agency (SHABAK)

Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation

Mr. Jonathan Davis Prof. Avi Degani Brig. Gen. (res.) Udi Dekel

Vice President for External Affairs and Head of the Raphael Recanati International School,

IDC Herzliya

CEO & President, Geocartography Knowledge Group

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

Ms. Lizy Delaricha Ms. Antonia L. Dimou Dr. Shira Efron

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

Policy Researcher and Special Advisor on Israel, RAND Corporation

Dr. Israel Elad-Altman Ms. Emily Elhacham MK Karin Elharrar

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

Researcher, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University

“Yesh Atid” Party

Prof. Haggai Erlich Mr. Moshe Fadlon MK Esawi Frej

Professor Emeritus, History of the Middle East and Africa, Tel-Aviv University

Mayor of Herzliya "Meretz" Party

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Dr. Anita Friedman Prof. Doron Friedman Mr. Avi Gabbay

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

Chairman of the Labor Party and of the Zionist Camp

Prof. Boaz Ganor Adv. Michal Gera Margaliot Maj. Gen. (res.)

Gershon HaCohen 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

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

Military Academies; Former Commander of the IDF Northern Corps

Dr. Ori Goldberg Mr. Ilan S. Goldenberg Rabbi Pinchas Goldshmidt

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

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

Chief Rabbi of Moscow & Head of the Rabbinical Court of the Commonwealth of

Independent States; President of the Conference of European Rabbis

Mr. Oded Granot Mr. Eli Groner Dr. Yoel Guzansky

Journalist. Middle East and International commentator

Director General, Prime Minister’s Office Senior fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS); Visiting Fellow,

Stanford University

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Prof. SU Hao Amb. Husain Haqqani Mr. Amos Harel

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

Director, South and Central Asia, Hudson Institute

Senior Military Correspondent and Defense Analyst, Haaretz

Photo: Hudson photographer Photo: Iki Photo Dino

Dr. Beatrice Hasler Brig. Gen. (res.) Michael Herzog Mr. Jacky Hugi

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

International Fellow, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Arab Affairs Editor, IDF Radio

Dr. Ofer Israeli Maj. Gen. (res.) David Ivry Mr. Meir Javedanfar

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

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

Israel Observer Photo: Shabi Kedem

Lt. Gen. VG Khandare,

PVSM, AVSM SM Amb. Bilahari Kausikan Dr. Dalia Dassa Kaye

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

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

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Amb. Tom Kelly Senator Mark Kirk MK Nurit Koren

Vice President, Foreign Policy & National Security Affairs,

Raytheon International Inc. (RII)

Senior advisor, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI)

"Likud" Party

Mr. Daniel Landau MK Yair Lapid Prof. Leo Leiderman

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

IDC Herzliya

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

Tel-Aviv University and Chief Economic Advisor, Bank Hapoalim

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

Dr. Alon Levkowitz Ms. Tali Lipkin-Shahak Hon. Mary Beth Long

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)

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

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Mr. Joey Low Mr. Eric Lynn Mr. David B. Makovsky

Founder, “Israel at Heart”;

Founder, Star Farm Ventures Senior fellow, Center for a New American

Security, Former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, United States DoD

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 Financial & Strategic

Consulting; Senior Lecturer and Research Associate, Institute for Policy & Strategy (IPS),

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

Photo: Yanai Yechiel

MK Amir Ohana Mr. Tamir Pardo Mr. Sami Peretz

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

Photo: Ran Biran

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

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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

Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation 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

Photo: Oksana Kempa

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Mr. Shimon Tal MK Adv. Pnina Tamano-Shata Prof. Charles Tenenbaum

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

Ms. Keren Terner-Eyal Mr. Chagai Tzuriel Mr. Moav Vardi

CEO, Ministry of Transport and Road Safety Director General of the Ministry of Intelligence Chief International Affairs Correspondent, Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation

Ms. Ruth Wasserman Lande Mr. Kenneth R. Weinstein Ms. Dana Weiss Deputy Director General for International

Affairs, Federation of Local Authorities in Israel; Former Israeli Diplomat at the Embassy of

Israel to Egypt

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

Photo: Eyal Ben Yaish

Dr. Chaim B. Weizmann Dr. Michal Yaari Lt. Gen. (res.)

Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon Senior Research Fellow, IPS, Academic advisor & Senior subject-matter expert, The Inclusive

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

IDC Herzliya

Tel Aviv University The Open University

Former Chief of Staff of the IDF and Former Minister of Defense

* Speakers marked with asterisks have yet to confirm their participation

Prof. Yoav Yair Maj. Gen. (ret.) Meni Yitshaki MK Tamar Zandberg

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

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

Chairperson of "Meretz"

Dr. Ronen Zeidel Dr. Ronen Zeidel Prof. Yaffa Zilbershats

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

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

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

Photo: Council for Higher Education in Israel

Prof. Eyal Zisser Prof. Irina Zvyagelskaya

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

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

Valdai Discussion Club, Moscow