Herzliya Conference/2008
The 2008 Herzliya Conference'[1] On the Balance of Israel's National Security, took place in January 2008 with the opening ceremonies being held at the Knesset in Jerusalem. The conference was run by IDC Herzliya, the Lauder School of Government Diplomacy and Strategy and the Institute for Policy and Strategy and was held in cooperation with the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies (which is part of the Shalem Centre). Cooperation and staff were also provided by the Zionist Council of Israel. [2]
The event covered strategies and policy recommendations 'across the five principal components of Israel’s national security – defense and foreign policy; economics; education and society; governance; and Jewish Peoplehood policy', with the aims of achieving 'a qualitative leap in all the dimensions of its national policy'. This included the possible use of military force against Iran, as well as discussions on energy security, partiotism, governance, Islam and education, to name a few.
Contents
Participants
Dov Lautman was in attendance along with Gideon Siterman. Lautman and Siterman share a connection through their involvement with the Israel-Britain Business Council (IBBC), where they took part in a meeting prior to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Conference in 2005. Heading the delegation from the IBBC at the Prime Minister’s Conference was Trevor Chinn. [3] [4] There was a Chinn present at the Herzliya conference too, David Chinn, Partner with McKinsey & Co. Israel. [5]
Sponsors
The 2008 Herzliya Conference's principal sponsors were....
- Bank Hapoalim
- Dor Alon - energy company
- Tamares Group - Hotels, Resorts and Spas. Tamares is owned solely by Poju Zabludowicz and 'is a private investment group with significant interest in real estate, technology, manufacturing, leisure and media in many parts of the world'.
- Israel Discount Bank
- Boeing
- First International Bank of Israel (FIBI)
- Raytheon - 'an industry leader in defense and government electronics, space and information technology' with sales of $21.9 billion in 2005. Headquarters in Massachusetts and more than 80,000 employees worldwide. Its Israeli subsidiary is called Del-Ta systems LLP
- Partner Communications Company Ltd - more commonly known as Orange.
- Riwal Company -
- Lockheed Martin - advanced technology systems, products and services.
- Siemens Company
- Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company Ltd - handling, storage and the transit of crude oil.
- Dexia Israel (Public Finance) Bank Ltd
- NDS Technologies Israel Ltd - The NDS Group, a majority owned subsidiary of the News Corporation.
- Shlomo Sixt Group - part of the automotive industry
- Mikal - an International defence group
- Coca Cola (The Central Bottling Company Ltd)
- United States Embassy, Tel Aviv, Public Affairs Office.
- B. Yair Building Corporation Ltd.
- RAFAEL Advanced Defense Systems Ltd - which 'develops and produces state-of-the-art armaments for the Israel Defense Forces'
- Ampa Group [6]
Supporters
Supporters included...
- Amb. Ronald S Lauder - President of the World Jewish Congress, Chairman of the International Public Committee of the World Jewish Restitution Organization and Chairman of the Jewish Heritage Council. Former Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Was U.S. Ambassador to Austria and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy, was former President of the Jewish National Fund. He is also described as an international businessman.
- The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
- Nadav Fund 'For the Advancement of Jewish Heritage'
- The Russell Berrie Foundation
- The Israeli Institute for Economic Planning
- The Society for Excellence through Education (SEE)
- Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael – Jewish National Fund
- IDB Group
- Roger Hertog
- Ministry of Defense
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- The Posen Foundation
- The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies
- The Alan B. Slifka Foundation
- The Abraham Fund Initiatives
- The Robert & Ardis James Foundation
- The American Jewish Committee
- The National Security Studies Center, University of Haifa
- The Jewish Agency for Israel
- Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
The event's media consultants were Arad Communications. [7]
Known Participants
55 of the 753 participants already have pages here:
| Participant | Description |
|---|---|
| Nahum Admoni | Director of the Mossad 1982 - 1989 |
| Joseph Alpher | Spooky Israeli soldier |
| Uzi Arad | Israeli academic visitor to spooky conferences |
| Shmuel Bar | "Terror expert" on the Herzliya Conference's steering team |
| Aharon Barak | He's the epitome of judicial complicity |
| Ehud Barak | Israeli spook who was Prime Minister of Israel from May 1999 to March 2001. Pal of Jeffrey Epstein. |
| Naftali Bennett | Prime Minister of Israel 2021-2022 |
| Peter Berkowitz | Director of Policy Planning in Trump I administration |
| Carl Bildt | Swedish deep state actor, serial Bilderberger and visitor to the MSC. Active in an impressive number of deep state related commissions & conferences. |
| John Bolton | Neocon US deep state operative who was Trump's National Security Advisor until September 2019 |
| David Chinn | McKinsey senior partner who works with public- and private-sector organizations out of Tel Aviv |
| Avner Cohen | Israeli/US historian |
| Ronald Cohen | "The father of British venture capital" |
| William Cohen | United States Secretary of Defense 1997-2001, various deep state connections |
| Irwin Cotler | Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada 2003-2006. "Totally unabashed defender and supporter of Israel". Member of numerous spooky think-tanks. |
| Lester Crown | Son of Chicago financier Henry Crown. Mega Group |
| Jonathan Davis | Israel-aligned "terror expert" |
| Rafi Eitan | Israeli intelligence agent, who led a large number of assassinations and other deep events. "All intelligence work is a partnership with crime. Morals are put aside" |
| Steve Emerson | American journalist, author, and pundit on national security, "terrorism", and Islamic extremism. |
| Oded Eran | Possibly spooky Israeli diplomat |
| Gilad Erdan | Israeli Spook and Ambassador at the UN |
| Reuven Erlich | Retired colonel in Israeli military intelligence. He heads the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (formerly known as the Center for Special Studies) |
| Stanley Fischer | Central banker - remarkably both in Israel and the United States - and quad Bilderberger. Mentor of Ben Bernanke, Mario Draghi, and Greg Mankiw. |
| Lorna Fitzsimons | Spooky UK MP |
| Karnit Flug | A governor of the Bank of Israel who has visitied Jackson Hole Symposia, a WEF AGM and Herzliya conferences. |
| Jacob Frenkel | Serial WEF AGM, Bank of Israel/Governor 1991-2000, CFR, maybe the second most Jackson Hole visits in the world |
| Boaz Ganor | Founded the "International Institute for Counter-Terrorism" |
| Eival Gilady | Connected triple Bilderberger Israeli officer who was a confidant of prime Minister Ariel Sharon. |
| François Heisbourg | Promoter of the "war on terror". He wrote a working paper for the 1989 Bilderberg. Heavy MSC habit. |
| Roger Hertog | US-Israeli millionaire, "the one man who has, far more than anyone else, financially enabled the neoconservative movement to exist" |
| Isaac Herzog | 2nd generation President of Israel since 2021, visited Epstein Island in December 2014, together with Ehud Barak |
| Michael Herzog | Retired brigadier general in the Israel Defense Forces and an expert for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. |
| Robert Hunter | Has played a national policy role in eight U.S. presidential election campaigns and written speeches and articles for presidential candidates, three U.S. Presidents four Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State and Defense, Senators, Representatives and other political figures. As United States Ambassador to NATO during the Clinton Administration, he was principal architect and negotiator of the post-Cold War "new NATO" and of the NATO airstrike decisions in the Bosnian War. |
| Josef Joffe | Publisher-editor of Die Zeit |
| Martin Kramer | Wrote that Middle East experts "failed to ask the right questions at the right time about Islam" |
| Yosef Kuperwasser | Israeli spook |
| Ronald Lauder | Former US Ambassador to Austria, "the principle force behind the privatization of the WTC", Jewish power broker. As of 2020 promoting internet censorship to prevent "hate crime". |
| Dov Lautman | |
| Bjørn Lomborg | WEF YGL, WEF GLT. President of the Gates-funded think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center, which publishes glowing estimates of the efficiency of the Gates foundation. |
| Judith Miller | Carried the can for the fraudulent story about Iraq's WMD |
| Jeremy Newmark | UK zionist politician |
| Karin Olofsdotter | Swedish diplomat and Swedish Ambassador to the United States |
| Jonathan Paris | Academic interested in the Middle East |
| Tom Phillips | UK Ambassador to Israel 2006-2010 |
| Tomáš Pojar | Czech "terror expert" and Czech Ambassador to Israel 2010-2014 |
| Felix Posen | Millionaire in Epstein's black book |
| Berel Rodal | SDS-connected banker turned "peace activist" |
| Nina Rosenwald | Influential neoconservative and operator in many activities of the pro-Israel lobby in the US |
| Kori Schake | Spooky US think-tanker |
| Philip Stephens | SDS-connected British editor |
| ... further results | |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Herzliya Conference 2008.pdf | Document | 2008 |
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090219104832/http://www.herzliyaconference.org/Eng/_Uploads/2154ExecutiveSummaryEnglish.pdf
- ↑ The Annual Herzliya Conference Series: on the Balance of Israel's National Security (2008) Conference Conclusions. Accessed 12 August, 2008.
- ↑ BBC Monitoring Middle East - Political Supplied by BBC Worldwide Monitoring. 'New head of Israel-Britain Business Council comments ahead of meeting'. 8 November, 2005
- ↑ World Trade Center Israel Ltd. Newsletter Issue No.77. Spring 2006. Accessed 22 July, 2008.
- ↑ The Annual Herzliya Conference Series: on the Balance of Israel's National Security (2008) Conference Conclusions. Accessed 12 August, 2008.
- ↑ The Annual Herzliya Conference Series: on the Balance of Israel's National Security (2008) Conference Conclusions. Accessed 12 August, 2008.
- ↑ The Annual Herzliya Conference Series: on the Balance of Israel's National Security (2008) Conference Conclusions. Accessed 12 August, 2008.