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9:30 am Registration

10:00 – 10:20 am Welcome and Introduction

Sharon Rosen – Co-director, Search for Common Ground, Jerusalem

Dr. Michael Borchard – Resident Representative, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Israel

H.E. Jon Hanssen-Bauer – Norwegian Ambassador to Israel

Reverend Kyoichi Sugino – Deputy Secretary General, Religions for Peace

10:20 am –11:20 pm Living in a multi-religious society - religious majority-minority relations in the Holy Land

Moderator: Rabba Tamar Elad Appelbaum, Rabba of Zion, Masorti community congregation, Jerusalem

Rabbi David Menachem – Rassco neighbourhood community rabbi, poet and musician

Sheikh Samir Assi – Imam, Al-Jazaar Mosque, Acre

Father David Neuhaus – Patriarchal vicar, Hebrew-speaking and migrant communities, Latin Patriarchate Jerusalem

11.20 am-12.45 pm Finding common ground between religious and civic values regarding holy sites

Moderator: Oded Wiener – Senior Advisor, Interfaith relations, Chief Rabbinate and Peres Center; former Director-General, Chief Rabbinate and Director-General, Holy Sites Authority

Ofer Zalzberg – Senior Analyst, Middle East and North Africa Program, International Crisis Group

Nadav Shragai – Senior research fellow, Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs; Journalist Israel Hayom

Salwa Alenalt – Adviser, Open University; PhD candidate, Middle East Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Qadi Dr. Iyad Zahalka – Judge, Sharia Court of Appeal, Jerusalem; Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University

Professor Aviad Hacohen – Dean, The Academic Center of Law and Science, head of the Center for the Study and Teaching of Jewish Law; Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem

12.45 –13.30 pm Lunch

13.30 – 15.00 pm Challenges and Opportunities - Mt. Zion

Moderator: Eran Tzidkiyahu - Project manager, Window on Mount Zion, Search for Common Ground Jerusalem

Ami Metav – Researcher, the Unit for Development and Entrepreneurship East Jerusalem

Father Dr. Nikodemus C. Schnabel, Spokesperson, Dormition Abbey

Johnny Kassabri – Liaison Officer for Christian Communities & Affairs, David Police Sub-District,

Jerusalem.

Yisca Harani – Independent scholar and History of Christianity expert