BIOGRAPHIES HERZLIYA CONFERENCE
Prof. Uzi Arad, Head and Founder, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya
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Founding Director of the prestigious Institute for Policy and Strategy of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya,
Professor Uzi Arad is a well-respected figure in foreign policy, security and strategic circles. As the Institute,
he established and chairs the Annual Herzliya Conference Series on Israel’s Balance of National Security.
Professor Arad also founded and chairs the Atlantic Forum of Israel. Recently, Professor Arad was
empowered to assemble and nominated to char the Presidential World Jewish Forum. After twenty-five years
of distinguished service in the Mossad, Israel’s Secret Intelligence Service, during which he served in senior
positions in Israel and abroad, culminating in his tenure as Director of Intelligence (at a Major General rank),
Professor Arad was appointed by then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to serve as his Foreign Policy
Advisor. After retiring from the civil service, Professor Arad was appointed by the Council of the European
Union to establish and direct the EU-Israel Forum. Today, Professor Arad is the Advisor of the Knesset
Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Prior to his career in government, Professor Arad was a
Professional Staff Member with the Hudson Institute in New York and Research Fellow at Tel Aviv
University’s Center for Strategic Studies. Professor Arad received his Bachelor’s Degree from Tel Aviv
University. In 1971, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for advanced studies at Princeton University,
where he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in International Relations.
Hayim Azses, Educational Director, Sephardic Educational Center
Hayim Azses is the founder and former director of the Kiryat Moriah Educational Center and of the Youth
Department European Desk. Hayim Azses has extensive experience in the field of educational and leadership
training, directing many projects at the Education Department of the Jewish Agency. He completed BA
degrees in Middle Eastern Affairs, French Literature, Economics and English Literature at the Hebrew
university. Hayim also studied at the Istanbul University and the Sorbonne in Paris, Hayim has published
extensively. His works include anthologies, activity books, films, and audiovisual kits for educators.
Dr. Mitchell Bard, Executive Director, American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise,
Mitchell Bard is the Executive Director of the nonprofit American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) and
one of the leading authorities on U.S.-Middle East policy. Dr. Bard is also the director of the Jewish Virtual
Library (www.JewishVirtualLibrary.org), the world’s most comprehensive online encyclopedia of Jewish
history and culture. Dr. Bard’s work has been published in academic journals, magazines and major
newspapers. He has written and edited17 books, including Myths And Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli
Conflict, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Middle East Conflict and 1001 Facts Everyone Should Know About
Israel. His newest book, Will Israel Survive? is due out in Spring 2007.
Noam Bedein, Sderot Media Center
After a year of seminary study, three years of Israel army service on the Lebanese border and a year´s trek
around Asia, Noam Bedein moved to Sderot to study at the Business School of the Sapir College Branch of
Ben-Gurion University. He currently works at the new Sderot Media Information Center for the Western
Negev Region of Israel.

Charles Chuman, Lebanese Political Journal
Charles Chuman is the editor of the Lebanese Political Journal. He liveblogged the July 2006 war from
Beirut, having previously liveblogged the Cedar Revolution from Martyrs’ Square. He worked in the pan-
Arab television market as director of market strategy for Signal One Media, and has extensive experience in
the Emirati, Iraqi, Jordanian, and Lebanese markets. He is also involved in political consulting.

This will give Israel a super artillery position only 15 miles and some change at the closest approach to the Syrian capital of Damascus.

Points to ponder; What will happen to the Palestinian refugees in the camps in Bir Hassan and Ashrafieh etc. in the south?

Syria will definately annex their part, but will Israel officially annex theirs?

Will the Casino du Liban remain open under Israeli authority?

Most Lebanese with any means/money will have or are in the process of fleeing I’m sure. They did this during the civil war in the 70’s and 80’s. So with most of the intelligencia gone, along with the premier business folks gone, and the other rich Arabs not going to Lebanon to play anymore cuz they built their own Disneyland in the Gulf, I don’t see much future for Lebanon as anything but an historical footnote, kinda like Ifni or the Buchananland Protectorate etc.

Given the inevitability of a Hezballah Israel conflict, is now a good time for Israel?

Is that what you call working? I guess that means filling up slit trenches with bodies is the epitome of success? Must be a Mid-Eastern thing.
Here in the civilized world, when armed gunmen attack the government, success is either killing them or putting them in prison for an extended period of time. You should try it. All it takes is a little courage.

REALLY ?

Never heard of the “Bekaa Valley Turkey Shoot?”

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-14826.html

These tired old conspiracy theories are what keeps Lebanon in the mess it is in. More interesting than Israel’s supposed “alliance” with Syria, is Lebanon’s actual, ongoing official state of war with Israel, one that Israel does not want, one that March 14 continues to pay lip service to, even as it provides a pretext for Hezbollahs’ very existence.