Arutz-7's Israel National Radio was at the Herzliya Conference last week. The following are photos and audio links from the conference.

Canadian MP and former Justice Minister Irwin Cotler was at the conference to speak on a panel dealing with the new Anti-Semitism. Cotler is involved in the move to bring Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to trial for incitement to genocide.



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Canadian MP Irwin Cotler, formerly AG and Minister of Justice in Canada, is pushing the UN to follow its own laws against incitement to genocide





Jonathan David gave the lowdown on Herzliya’s Inter-Disciplinary Center, its programs for English speakers and its plans for the future.



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Jonathan David, the IDC's Vice President for External Relations and Head of the Raphael Recanati International School





Joel Mowbry, who authored Dangerous Diplomacy, a book outlining the dangers of the US State Department’s policies in the face of the global Jihad, spoke about his book. He cites the policies toward Yasser Arafat as a prime case in point and warns that the State Department refuses to accept that there is a war afoot.





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Joel Mowbray, a syndicated columnist and the author of "Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Threatens America's Security"



Lori Lowenthal Marcus, a fellow radio personality and regional director of the Zionist Organization of America, spoke with Arutz-7 about her experience at the conference.




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Lori Lowenthal Marcus, Zionist Organization of America president of Greater Philadelphia and host of the ZOA Middle East Report radio program



Tzafrir Ronen, an outspoken Land of Israel activist, spoke about the need for Israel to become a healthy self-respecting nation. “If we are willing to give our identity to our enemy – we have a problem. To say Hevron and Jerusalem are Muslim is to negate our existence as a nation,” Ronen said.



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Tsafrir Ronen, kibbutz founder and former member of the Sayeret Matkal elite reconnaissance unit who established the Nahalal Forum of Labor Zionists for the Land of Israel





Keren, who works at the Daniel Hotel, where the conference took place, speaks about the beauty she sees in the conference and the fresh ideas for the future she hopes are being hatched in the lobby. "My friends and I are afraid to even hope for good things in the future, so we try to just love and enjoy every day as a Jew in the Jewish homeland. We went to the United States and tried to work there, but we couldn't. You are there and you realize there is no place like Israel and you come home."





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Lobby meeting of (from left) Yoram Ettinger, MK Menachem Ben-Sasson, Michael Wise and Bennett Zimmerman





Boaz Arad was one of the organizers of a protest outside the Daniel Hotel. He and others protested outside the conference as part of the Personal Responsibility Forum, organized following the war among non-partisan citizens who organized over the internet and have staged grassroots protests. The protesters staged demonstrations wherever Prime Minister Olmert, Defense Minister Peretz or former-Chief of Staff Halutz appear. “Our expectations of our leadership has been lowered so low, but people have been brainwashed to think there is no alternative,” he said.



Arutz-7's photographer was briefly detained after the prime minister's security detail saw him photographing the protesters.



Boaz Arad, organizer of Olmert Go Home movement, which protested outside the Herzliya Conference during the prime minister's speech





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Meanwhile, journalist Ari Shavit preceded Olmert at the speaker's podium, offering a scathing appraisal of Israel's leadership and demanding that it be supplanted by a leadership not connected to the wealthy elite, who, Shavit says, have led Israel astray and are endangering its very survival.



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Journalist Ari Shavit, speaking about the crisis in Israel that he has personally experienced; Shavit called for the replacement of the ruling elite



(Photos: Josh Shamsi, Arutz-7 Photojournalist)