Sessions Gallery



Opening Event

Second Day

Third Day

Lectures by INSS Researchers
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Sessions
Opening event
January 26
17:30-19:00
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- Opening remarks
Sir Frank Lowy, Chairman of INSS Board of Directors • Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin, Executive Director of INSS • Pinchas (Pini) Cohen, Chairman of INSS Israeli Board of Trustees
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Address by the IDF Chief of the General Staff
Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi
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- Panel discussion: Talking Normalization
Moderator: Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin, Executive Director of INSS
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Participants: Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Gabi Ashkenazi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel • H.E. Dr. Anwar Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates • H.E. Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain
Second Day
January 27
17:30-20:30
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- Opening remarks
Brig. Gen. (ret.) Udi Dekel, Managing Director of INSS
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- Can Biden Keep the World Flat - But Not Fragile?
Thomas Friedman, New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist
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- Panel Discussion: The World between Trump and Biden
Moderator: Ambassador Daniel Shapiro, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at INSS
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Keynotes: Dr. S. Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister of India
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Participants: Amb. Dr. Eyal Propper, Head of China Research at INSS • Danielle Pletka, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute • Congressman Ted Deutsch • Boris Makarenko, President & CEO of the Russian Center for Political Technologies • Natalie Tocci, Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy
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- 2021 in the Middle East: lockdown, breakdown or breakthrough
Heiko Maas, Federal Foreign Minister of Germany
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- INSS Simulation: War in the Middle East
Moderator: Brig. Gen. (ret.) Itai Brun, Deputy Director for Research and Analysis at INSS
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Participants: Fyodor A. Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs • Sima Shine, Head of the Iran Program at INSS • Dr. Ebtesam al- Ketbi, President of the Emirates Policy Center • Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitsan Alon, Head of Matrix Defense • Prof. Eyal Zisser, Vice-Rector of Tel Aviv University • Shimrit Meir, Middle Eastern Affairs Analyst
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- INSS Simulation Review
Moderator: Brig. Gen. (ret.) Udi Dekel, Managing Director of INSS
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Participants: Zipi Livni, Former Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs' • Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Gadi Eisenkot, Former IDF Chief of General Staff and Senior Research Fellow at INSS • Gen. (ret.) John R. Allen, President of the Brookings Institution
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- National Security Index - Public Opinion Survey 2020-2021
Dr. Zipi Israeli, Head of Public Opinion program at INSS
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- Tap the Expert: Q&A with the INSS Researchers
Moderator: Brig. Gen. (Res.) Assaf Orion, Senior Research Fellow, Director of Israel-China research program at INSS
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Participants: Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin, Executive Director of INSS • Sima Shine, Head of Iran program at INSS
third Day
January 28
17:30-20:30
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- Opening remarks
Brig. Gen. (ret.) Udi Dekel, Managing Director of INSS
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- Strategic Assessment for Israel 2021
Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin, Executive Director of INSS
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- Panel Discussion: Looking Inward - How to Heal Israel
Moderator: Amalya Duek, Correspondent and Anchor at Channel 12 News
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Participants: Emi Palmor, Former DG of Ministry of Justice and Member of Facebook’s Oversight Board • Dr. Carmit Padan, Research Fellow at INSS • Dr. Lia Moran-Gilad, Family Research Group Leader at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute (MJB) • Shira Greenberg-Gelbwaser, Chief Economist of the Ministry of Finance • Prof. Siegal Sadetzki, Former Director of Public Health Services at the Health Ministry
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- Covid-19 and the Home Front: Interview with the Commander of the Home Front Command
Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin, Commander of the Home Front Command • Moderator: :Brig. Gen (ret.) Dr. Meir Elran, Head of the Domestic Arena Programs at INSS
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- Tap the Expert: Q&A with the INSS Researchers
Moderator: Brig. Gen. (ret.) Udi Dekel, Managing Director of INSS
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Participants: Moshe Bar-Siman-Tov, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at INSS, former Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Health • Col. (res.) Adv. Pnina Sharvit Baruch, Head of the Law and National Security Program at INSS
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- Elections 2021: New Direction? Interviews with Party Leaders
Moderator: Tal Shalev, Political Correspondent and Analyst for Walla! News
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Participants: MK Naftali Bennet, Chairman of Yamina Party • MK Yair Lapid, Chairman of Yesh Atid Party • MK Avigdor Liberman, Chairman of Yisrael Beiteinu Party • MK Nitzan Horowitz Chairman of Meretz Party • MK Gidon Saar, Chairman of New Hope Party • Mayor Ron Huldai, Chairman of the Israelim Party • MK Merav Michaeli, Chairwoman of the Labor Party
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- Closing Remarks
Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin, Executive Director of INSS


