The public symposium on Teaching Islam to Jews and Judaism to Muslims in Israel was held at the Konrad Adenauer Conference Center in Mishkenot Sha'ananim, Jerusalem on Monday, November 24, 2008.

The program included the following:

Reception
Greetings:

• Dr. Lars Hänsel, Director of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Israel
• Prof. Israel Bartal, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, the Hebrew University
• Dr. Faruq Mawasi, Al-Qasemi College Baqa al-Gharbiyya

  Discussants:

  • Professor Menahem Ben-Sasson, Member of Knesset, Chairman of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee
  • Professor Khalil Athamina, Al-Qasemi College
  • Dr. Mahmud Yazbak, the University of Haifa
  • Professor Sarah Sviri, the Hebrew University

  Moderator: Dr. Ron Kronish, ICCI

  The symposium was sponsored by:

  • Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Israel
  • Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI)
  • Al-Qasemi College of Baqa al-Gharbiyya, and
  • The Nehemia Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem