Seminar
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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