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The Program

11:00 – 11:30 Opening Session

Greetings:

Dr. Lars Hänsel, Director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Israel

Prof. Eyal Zisser, Head of the Moshe Dayan Center

Opening remarks:

Dr. Ephraim Lavie, Acting Director of the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation

11:30 – 13:30 First Session: From “Advisor on Arab Affairs” to the “Minister of Minorities Affairs” – A Historical Perspective

Chair and respondent:

Dr. Taghreed Yahiya-Younis (Tel Aviv University)

Lecturers:

Dr. Yitzhak Reiter (Jerusalem Institute and the Ashkelon Academic College)

The Rabin-Peres Administration, 1992-1996: A true “Golden Age”?

Prof. Yoav Gelber (University of Haifa)

Developing policy on Arabs in Israel, and the institutions that executed the policy between 1949 and 1953

Dr. Yair Bäuml (Oranim Academic College of Education)

Decoding the policy of the Israeli establishment toward Arabs in Israel

Dr. Amal Jamal (Tel Aviv University)

Political structuring of a “hollow citizenship” for Israel’s Palestinian citizens

13:00 – 14:00 Luncheon

14:00 – 16:00 Second session: Implications of Government Policy on the Social, Political and Legal Status of Israel’s Arab Citizens

Chair:

Dr. Ephraim Lavie (Tel Aviv University)

Lecturers:

Prof. Haim Sandberg (The College of Management – Academic Studies)

Allocation of Land Resources for the Arab Sector

Dr. Yousef T. Jabareen (University of Haifa, Dirasat Center for Law and Policy)

The Arab Minority and the Allocation of Public Resources:

The Education as a Case Study

Dr. Netta Ziv (Tel Aviv University)

Individual and Collective Rights in the Legal Field

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 18:30 Third Session: The Future of the Relations between the State of Israel and its Arab Citizens

Moderator:

Prof. (Emeritus) Shimon Shamir (Tel Aviv University)

Participants:

Mr. Ramiz Jaraysee (Mayor of Nazareth and Head of the National Committee of the Arab Local Authorities in Israel)

Mr. Issam Makhoul (Director of Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies)

MK Hanin Zuabi (National Democratic Alliance)

Closing remarks:

Prof. Avishai Braverman, Minister of Minorities Affairs