10/25 Agenda  **DRAFT **

8:00 - 9:00 am

Breakfast/Time to network

9:00 - 9:10 am

Welcome - Steve Schwager & Brian Lurie, Co-Chairs, Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues

9:10 - 9:40 am

Inter-Agency Task Force Progress Report / Communications Strategy / Feedback - Jessica Balaban, Executive Director, Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues

9:40 - 10:00 am

Report from Israel / Feedback - Avivit Hai, Program Associate - Israel, Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues

10:00 - 11:00 am

Index of Arab-Jewish-Arab Relations in Israel: Attitudes and Trends and an Israeli Arab Community Perspective Including Advancements in Municipal Governance -

• Professor Sammy Smooha, Visiting Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University, Senior Research Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and Former Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Haifa
• Ghaida Rinawie-Zoabi, General Director, Injaz, the Professional Center for Arab Local Governance in Israel

11:00 - 11:30 am

Break

11:30 - 12:30 pm

Breakout Sessions

12:30 - 1: 50 pm

Lunch

1:50 - 2:00 pm

Conclusion / Next steps