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09:30 – 10:30 Entrance and Registration

10:30 – 10:45 Welcome and Order of the Day

Mr. Helmi Kittani, Director of the Center for Jewish-Arab

Economic Development

Dr. Lars Hänsel, Representative of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Israel

Mrs. Yael German, Mayor of Herzliya

Mr. Tamim Yassin, Chairman, NGT Technological Incubator

10:45 – 11:05 Minister Silvan Shalom, Vice Prime Minister, Minister of

Regional Development, Minister of Development of the

Negev and Galilee

11.05 – 11.15 Ambassador Ramiro Cibrian Uzal, Head of the Delegation

of the European Commission to the State of Israel

11:15 – 12:00 The Economic Crisis: Opportunities for Integration and

Growth. Moderated by Mr. Dror Globerman, 'Maariv'

Mr. Iman Saif, Director of the Authority for the Economic

Development of the Arab, Druze and Circassian Sectors at the

Office of the Prime Minister

Mr. Oscar Abu Razek, Partner, Kesselman & Kesselman

12:05 – 12:20 Prof. Yoel Mansfeld, Head of Center for Tourism Studies,

Geography and Environmental Studies, Haifa University

'The 'Green Tourism' industry and the Arab Sector –

opportunities in times of crisis'

12:25 – 13:15 Crisis in the West – Opportunities in the East?

Moderated by Mr. Yoav Stern, 'Haaretz'

Mr. Dan Catarivas, Director, Division of Foreign Trade &

International Relations, Manufacturers Association

Mr. Tarek Awad, Director, Supergas Acco – Carmiel

Mr. Shauli Katznelson, Deputy Director, The Israel Export &

International Cooperation Institute (IEICI)

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch

14:15 – 14:30 Prof. Avishay Braverman, Minister of Minority Affairs

14:30 – 14:45 Prof. Daniel Czamanski, Czamanski Ben Shahar and Co.

Ltd. 'Entrepreneurship, labor participation rates and per capita

income towards 2028'

14:45 – 15:30 Beyond Sector Boundaries – Arab Integration into the

Israeli Economy

Moderator TBC

Prof. Aziz Haidar, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Mr. Mohammad Abed Altif, Owner of shopping mall in Umm

el-Fahm

Mr. Zeev Bergman, Director Galilee Software, Previously CEO

Comverse

Mr. Samer Nachle, Nachle Coffee

Mr. Imad Talhami, Babcom Centers

15:30 – 15:45 Mr. Ofer Eini, Chairman, Israel’s Histadrut - General

Federation of Labour Unions

15:45 – 16:45 Innovative Approaches to Partnership – Joint Industrial

Zones and Private Initiatives

Moderator TBC

Prof. Rassem Khamaisi, President, Israel Geography

Association; Haifa University

Mr. Zeev Hayut, CEO Tsafona

Mr. Ka'ed Abu 'Ayash, Abu 'Ayash Brothers Construction;

Chairman, Arab Business Club

Mr. Uriel Lin, President of the Association of Chambers of

Commerce

16:45 – 17:00 Conclusion

Program subject to change