Major Conferences

• Local Government Israel 2005 – ‘Local Government and Leadership'

Local Government Israel 2005, the Hartog School's first annual national conference on local government issues, was held on 30-31 May, 2005. The conference provided a unique platform to discuss the many critical policy and management challenges facing local government in Israel today. In addition, Local Government Israel 2005 allowed the participants to analyze critical case studies – in Israel and aboard. It also provided a platform for side workshops dealing with specialized topics.

Below you will find the conference booklet which contains:

· A letter from Prof. Yossi Shain – Head of the Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy
· The program of events
· Biographies of all the international participants
· Position paper summaries

Conference Booklet

Workshops and Lectures

• Security Studies Public Lecture Series and Tel Aviv Workshop for Science, Technology and Security

A public lecture series is held each year by the Security Studies Program which seeks to explore in-depth a set of issues at the top of the Israeli security agenda. This series which has been running for some years, has become a highly active and public forum, and has attracted a wide audience. At the core of this activity stands the Tel Aviv Workshop for Science, Technology and Security, which was established in 2003 as a special program focussing on the implication for Israel of the reciprocal relationship between science, technology and security.

The workshops scheduled for 2005-6 as follows:

• 13 December, 2005 - Robots and Unmanned Vehicles
• 3 January, 2006 - Defense R&D

The workshops held in 2004-5:

• 11 November, 2004 - The Ideology of Islamic Fundamentalism and its Proponents
• 30 November, 2004 - Revolution in Military Affairs - The Israeli Context
• 9 January, 2005 - Intelligence
• 22 March, 2005 - Diplomacy and Security
• 10 May, 2005 - Education and Society
• 2 June, 2005 - Summing Up

Keren Keshet Lecture Series

This collaboration between TAU and Keren Keshet, established in 2004, has produced a markedly exciting series of lectures attended by academics, jurists, government officials, journalists, students and others. Keynote speakers in the 2004 program included Professor Francis Fukuyama, who discussed U.S. national security and the Bush Doctrine; Professor Seth Waxman, former Solicitor-General in the Clinton administration, who spoke about how the war on terror by the Bush administration affected the American legal system; and Mr. Tod Lindberg, editor of the journal Policy Review, and research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, who spoke about the liberal roots and liberal purposes of neoconservatism in America.

In 2005 the focus will be on democracy, democratization, and the rule of law.

The lectures scheduled for 2005 as follows:

• Professor Ruth Wedgwood, 16 January, 2005

Professor Ruth Wedgwood of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She is a prominent human rights lawyer, and she will speak about American democracy and about the changing nature of the laws of war.
Articles

• William Kristol, 6 March, 2005

William Kristol, editor and publisher of the Weekly Standard. He will speak on Iraq, democratization, and the Middle East.
Articles


• Linda Robinson, 3 April, 2005

Linda Robinson, US News and World Report senior correspondent and author of Master of Chaos, a new book about the history of the Special Forces in the American military. She will speak about democracy, culture, and military discipline in America.
Articles


• Professor Michael McFaul, May 2005

Professor Michael McFaul, of Stanford, a specialist in Russia and democratization who will speak about the history of American efforts at democratization outside the Middle East.