The Rubin Center for Research in
International Affairs cordially
invites you to
A Symposium in Honor of the Late Prof.
Barry Rubin:
“Israel in a Changed Middle East”
Sunday, February 7th,
2016, at 8:30am
Carol and Joey Low
Lecture Halls
Interdisciplinary
Center (IDC) Herzliya
8:30 | Reception
8:45 | Opening remarks
Prof. Uriel
Reichman,
President and Founder, IDC Herzliya.
Judith Colp
Rubin,
Honorary President, Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs, IDC
Herzliya.
Dr. Jonathan
Spyer,
Director, Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs, IDC Herzliya.
Symposium on “Israel in a Changed Middle East”
Panel
Chair: Dr. Jonathan Spyer, Director, Rubin Center for Research in
International Affairs, IDC Herzliya.
9:00
| Session 1: State-to-State Issues and the Changed Region
Dr. Dan
Schueftan, Director,
The National Security Studies Center, The University of Haifa.
"Strategic implications
of regional change for Israel, and the impact of U.S. Middle East policy."
Alex Grinberg, Research
Associate, Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs, IDC Herzliya.
"The Iranian
threat after the JCPOA."
Prof. Joshua
Teitelbaum, Senior
Research Associate, Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University.
"Israel
and the Gulf countries: A window of opportunity?"
Dr. Bruce
Maddy-Weitzmann,
Principal Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African
Studies, Tel Aviv University.
"The
current state of relations between Israel and Egypt"
10:40 | Break
11:00
| Session 2: Israel and Non-State Actors
Aymenn Jawad
Al-Tamimi,
Rubin Fellow, Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs, IDC Herzliya.
"The jihadi
threat on Israel’s northern border"
Dr. Eitan Azani, Deputy
Executive Director, International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), IDC
Herzliya.
"Is
Hizballah stronger or weaker as a result of its involvement in the Syrian civil
war?"
Prof. Ofra Bengio,
Senior Research Fellow, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern
and African Studies, Tel Aviv University.
"Israel and
the Kurds"
The event will be conducted in English