Jerusalem Conference
The Jerusalem Conference, billed as the religious-nationalist response to last December's Herzliya Conference, is set to begin this Monday morning, running until Wednesday evening. The owners of Arutz-7's weekly B'Sheva newspaper, the driving force behind the event, are not bashful about their goals. They intend to counter the left-wing drift of the prestigious Herzliya and Caesarea Conferences that preceded it. The Jerusalem Conference, they say, is planned to be an "ideological and spiritual response to those conferences at which the prevalent idea is retreat."
The conference will take place at Jerusalem's Hyatt Regency hotel, where the late Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze'evi was murdered by terrorists in October 2001.
The complete schedule can be seen here.
Among those scheduled to address the conference Monday are:
* Minister Uzi Landau
* MKs Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Ehud Yatom, Matan Vilnai, Aryeh Eldad and Yuli Edelstein
* IDF generals (res.) Aharon Levran and Yoash Tzidon
* Rabbis Yisrael Meir Lau and Zalman Melamed, and
* Journalists Michael Freund and Elyakim HaEtzni.
First-day sessions are entitled:
* "Have the Strategic Threats to Israel Changed?"
* "Israel and Israeli-Arabs"
* "Are Aliyah and Birth-Rate Still a Top National Priority?"
* "Unilateral Disengagement: A Legitimate Process, or the Transfer of Jews?"
Other speakers on Tuesday include IDF Chief Rabbi Brig.-Gen. Yisrael Weiss, Ministers Silvan Shalom, Effie Eitam, Avigdor Lieberman and Zevulun Orlev, Caroline Glick, Amos Schocken, MKs Uri Ariel, Nissan Slomiansky, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Prof. Yosef Bodenheimer, Prof. Yochanan Shtesman, Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, and Prof. Ben-Tzion Zilberfarb.
Wednesday's line-up includes Rishon LeTzion Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, former Ambassador Zalman Shoval, Deputy Minister Tzvi Hendel, Rabbis Shlomo Riskin, Moti Elon, Mordechai Noigershall, and Sholom Gold, MKs Gila Finkelstein and Rabbi MK Meir Porush; Prof. Shalom Rosenberg, and Col. (res.) Moshe Leshem.
Tuesday's sessions deal with media, public opinion, economics, and hi-tech, while on Wednesday, Jewish education and culture, anti-Semitism, assimilation, Israeli-U.S. relations, and Jerusalem will be on the agenda.
The Jerusalem Conference is sponsored and organized by B'Sheva, Israel's third-largest publication (delivered free to 130,000 homes), and the newspaper with the largest circulation among Israel's religious public.
IsraelNationalNews.com and IsraelNationalRadio.com will both be offering extensive coverage of the Jerusalem Conference. Simultaneous English translations will be made available to attendees at all sessions of the conference.
The Jerusalem Conference, billed as the religious-nationalist response to last December's Herzliya Conference, is set to begin this Monday morning, running until Wednesday evening. The owners of Arutz-7's weekly B'Sheva newspaper, the driving force behind the event, are not bashful about their goals. They intend to counter the left-wing drift of the prestigious Herzliya and Caesarea Conferences that preceded it. The Jerusalem Conference, they say, is planned to be an "ideological and spiritual response to those conferences at which the prevalent idea is retreat."
The conference will take place at Jerusalem's Hyatt Regency hotel, where the late Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze'evi was murdered by terrorists in October 2001.
The complete schedule can be seen here.
Among those scheduled to address the conference Monday are:
* Minister Uzi Landau
* MKs Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Ehud Yatom, Matan Vilnai, Aryeh Eldad and Yuli Edelstein
* IDF generals (res.) Aharon Levran and Yoash Tzidon
* Rabbis Yisrael Meir Lau and Zalman Melamed, and
* Journalists Michael Freund and Elyakim HaEtzni.
First-day sessions are entitled:
* "Have the Strategic Threats to Israel Changed?"
* "Israel and Israeli-Arabs"
* "Are Aliyah and Birth-Rate Still a Top National Priority?"
* "Unilateral Disengagement: A Legitimate Process, or the Transfer of Jews?"
Other speakers on Tuesday include IDF Chief Rabbi Brig.-Gen. Yisrael Weiss, Ministers Silvan Shalom, Effie Eitam, Avigdor Lieberman and Zevulun Orlev, Caroline Glick, Amos Schocken, MKs Uri Ariel, Nissan Slomiansky, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Prof. Yosef Bodenheimer, Prof. Yochanan Shtesman, Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, and Prof. Ben-Tzion Zilberfarb.
Wednesday's line-up includes Rishon LeTzion Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, former Ambassador Zalman Shoval, Deputy Minister Tzvi Hendel, Rabbis Shlomo Riskin, Moti Elon, Mordechai Noigershall, and Sholom Gold, MKs Gila Finkelstein and Rabbi MK Meir Porush; Prof. Shalom Rosenberg, and Col. (res.) Moshe Leshem.
Tuesday's sessions deal with media, public opinion, economics, and hi-tech, while on Wednesday, Jewish education and culture, anti-Semitism, assimilation, Israeli-U.S. relations, and Jerusalem will be on the agenda.
The Jerusalem Conference is sponsored and organized by B'Sheva, Israel's third-largest publication (delivered free to 130,000 homes), and the newspaper with the largest circulation among Israel's religious public.
IsraelNationalNews.com and IsraelNationalRadio.com will both be offering extensive coverage of the Jerusalem Conference. Simultaneous English translations will be made available to attendees at all sessions of the conference.