The Critical Need for Missile Defense for Israel's National Security: A US-Israel Forum

Israel at 60: Its Historical and Legal Rights Still Challenged?

10:00 - 10:20 - Click To Watch
Opening Address: Tzipi Livni, Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs

10:20 - 10:45 - Click To Watch
Welcome and Opening remarks
Dr. Dore Gold, President of JCPA and Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations
Dr. Lars Hänsel, Director, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Israel

10:45 - 12:00 - Click To Watch
Session One: Israel’s Legitimacy in the Public Discourse Chairman:
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, Chairman of the JCPA Steering Committee
Prof. Gerald Steinberg, Jerusalem Center; NGO Monitor; Bar-Ilan University Trevor Asserson, International Lawyer
Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi, Executive Director of the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels

12:30 - 13:45 - Click To Watch
Session Two: Israel and the Modern Nation-State
Chairman: Judge Gabriel Bach, Former Supreme Court Justice
Sir Martin Gilbert, Author of “Churchill and the Jews”
Prof. Ruth Gavison, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University Amb. Yehuda Blum, Professor Emeritus of International Law, Hebrew University

14:45 - 16:00 - Click To Watch
Session Three: Countering Legal Challenges to Israel’s Legitimacy
Chairman: Dr. Abraham Bell, Israel and International Law Forum, Jerusalem Center; Bar-Ilan University; Fordham University School of Law Adv.
Irit Kohn, Bar-Ilan University; Deputy President of the International Jewish Lawyers and Jurists Organization and former Director of the International Department of the Ministry of Justice MP
Prof. Irwin Cotler, former Justice Minister, Canada
Daniel Taub, Director, General Law Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Prof. Eugene Kontorovich, Northwestern University Law School

16:00 - 16:30
Closing Lecture: Protecting Israel’s International Rights
MK. Benjamin Netanyahu, Head of the Opposition and former Prime Minister of Israel