The Herzliya Conference is an annual summit held at the

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to discuss matters of state security and policy.

History

The Herzliya Conference was established in December 2000 as a "closed-door annual gathering of the country's very top political, security, intelligence, and business elite". Its declared aim was “taking stock of Israel’s national security across a wide range of dimensions: the military balance, international diplomatic environment, economic health, social fabric, quality of education, government performance, and the Jewish world.” The Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), headed by Alex Mintz of the

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School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy sponsors the Herzliya Conference. The institute studies national policy with the aim of upgrading of the strategic decision-making process through policy-driven research and interaction between policy analysts and policy-makers. The institute is considered a world leader in risk assessment in the Middle East. The

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(ELNET) and the Forum of Strategic Dialogue (FSD) regularly host special roundtable sessions at the Herzliya Conference.

Notable addresses

Ariel Sharon

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon delivered his most important foreign policy speeches at the Herzliya Conferences. His addresses at this forum were likened to the U.S. president's State of the Union address. At the third Herzliya Conference, Sharon announced his support for the

Road map for peace The Roadmap for peace or road map for peace ( he, מפת הדרכים ''Mapa had'rakhim'', ''Khāriṭa ṭarīq as-salāmu'') was a plan to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict proposed by the Quartet on the Middle East: the United Stat ...

and at the Fourth Herzliya Conference, he presented for the first time his unilateral disengagement plan.

Ehud Olmert

On January 24, 2006, Ehud Olmert, in his first major policy address since becoming Israel's acting prime minister, said at the Herzliya Conference that he backed the creation of a Palestinian state, and that Israel would have to relinquish parts of the West Bank to maintain Israel's Jewish majority.

References

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External links

Herzliya Conference Official Website

Yonatan Mendel at the Herzliya Conference, London Review of Books, 22.4.2007
Zionism Israeli–Palestinian peace process Reichman University Herzliya Recurring events established in 2000 2000 establishments in Israel