Program:

7:30-9:00
Registration and Breakfast

9:00-9:15
Welcome by Yaakov Katz, Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post

9:15-9:25
Speech by Israel Katz, Israel's Transportation and Intelligence Minister and Security Cabinet Member

9:25-9:35
Speech by Dr. Yuval Steinitz , Israel's Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources

9:35-9:45
Speech by Mk. Isaac Herzog, Leader of the Opposition & Chairman of the Labor Party

9:45-9:55
Speech by Jerusalem Post Conference President Ronald S. Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress

9:55-10:02
The Jerusalem Post International Economic Contribution Award for 2017

10:02-10:22
Interview with Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump, By Yaakov Katz

10:22-10:32
Tribute to Jewish Veterans of World War II in honor of the upcoming anniversary of Victory Day over Nazi Germany, by the American Forum of Russian Speaking Jewry – The Home for Russian American Jews for Israel

10:32-10:42
Presentation by Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF)

10:42-10:52
Speech by Ofir Akunis, Israel's Minister of Science and Technology

10:52-11:02
Speech by Ayelet Shaked, Israel's Minister of Justice

11:02-11:12
Assaf Wiess, Founder & CEO of Ma’agalim - Empowering Israel’s At-Risk Youth

11:12-11:57
Coffee

11:57-12:07
Speech by Prof. Joshua (Shuki) Shemer, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Assuta Medical Centers Network - Assuta Ashdod: Healthcare in Israel Heats Up‏

12:07-12:37
Panel - The Middle East's Economy in the Trump era
Moderator: Dr. Efraim Chalamish, Law and Business Prof., media commentator, and adviser
Participants: Maj. Gen. (res.) Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel Member of EMET Prize Award Committee, Bini Zomer, Israel Country Manager, Noble Energy. Nissim Zioni Founder & CEO of Pitchon-Lev and Yaky Yanay CEO & President of Pluristem Therapeutics and Inon Elroy, Israel's Economic Minister to North America

12:37-12:47
Speech by Naftali Bennett, Israel's Education and Diaspora Affairs Minister, By Herb Keinon

12:47-12:57
Speech by Haim Bibas, Chairman of the Federation of local Authorities in Israel

12:57-1:07
Inside Innovation – The OrCam Story by Elad Serfaty, Senior Vice President, OrCam

1:07-1:17
BDS, Diplomacy and Delegitimization: How to Tell the Truth in the UN, by Danny Danon, Israel's Ambassador to the UN

1:17-1:27
Speech by Eli Beer, Founder and President United Hatzalah of Israel

1:27-2:27
Lunch

2:27-2:32
The Jerusalem Post Award to Mr. Arie Dubson, CEO of the A.M.N. Foundation

2:32-3:02
Iran, ISIS, Hamas & Hezbollah - Two IDF Chiefs of Staff on Israel's Security Challenges: Lt. Gen. (res.) Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon & Lt. Gen. (ret.) Dani Haloutz, moderated byYaakov Katz

3:02-3:07
Speech by Irina Nevzlin, President of the Nadav Foundation & Chair of the Board of Directors of Beit Hatfutsot, The Museum of the Jewish People

3:07-3:52
Panel - Is Israel Still the State of All the Jews?
Participants: Jerry Silverman, President & CEO, The Jewish Federations of North America, Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, Executive Vice President of The Rabbinical Assembly, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of Union for Reform Judaism and Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie, Founder & Director of North County Chabad Center

3:52-4:02
Israel's Defender, Interview with Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Emeritus, moderated by Herb Keinon

4:02-4:07
David Brand, CEO of DMB Strategic, introducing the film “IN OUR HANDS-THE BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM” A CBN DOCUMENTARIES FILM The Christian Broadcast Network

4:07-4:27
The Jerusalem Post Lifetime Achievement Award to Larry King , followed by interview withYaakov Katz on his life, career and Jewish identity

4:27-4:42
A View of Israel from the US Senate: Tom Cotton, U.S. Senator from Arkansas & Deb Fischer U.S. Senator from Nebraska, moderated by Herb Keinon

4:42-4:52
Speech by Grace Meng (D-NY) Member of the House Appropriations Committee

4:52-5:02
Speech by Caroline B. Glick, Jerusalem Post Senior Contributing Editor

Singing of Hatikva by opera singer David Serero.

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