The Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation will be holding a conference on "Government Policy toward the Arab Citizens of Israel: Theory and Practice".

Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
Location: Bnei Zion Auditorium, Nachum Goldman Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv University

* Simultaneous Hebrew / English translation will be provided

Schedule:

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: 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 Minority Affairs

To RSVP please call 972-3-6409991 or e-mail at arabpol@post.tau.ac.il