Forum on Leadership and Authority

Thursday, June 11th:

9:00 – 9:30  Opening Remarks

• Dr. Arye Carmon, President of IDI
• Prof. Yedidia Stern, Vice President for Research on the Jewish State
• Prof. Tamar Hermann, Senior Fellow and Head of IDI’s Politics and Anti-Politics Research Program

9:30 – 12:00 First Session: Leadership in a Democratic Society

• Prof. Anita Shapira — Political and Cultural Leadership: Working Hand in Hand? —  The Case of Berl Katzenelson and David Ben Gurion
• Prof. Eli Shaltiel — "Wartime Leadership: Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt"
• Dr. Ronit Bugler — Educational Leadership
• Prof. Menachem Mautner — Judiciary Leadership

13:15 – 15:45 Second Session: Cultural Aspects

• Prof. Emmanuel Sivan — Leadership in the Muslim World
• Prof. Ben Ami Shiloni — Leadership in Japan
• Prof. Yedidia Stern — Contemporary Rabbinic Leadership
• Prof. Benyamin Keidar — The Pope as a Leader

16:15 – 18:45 Third Session: Traditional Jewish Leadership

• Dr. Avinoam Rosenack — Models of Leadership in the Works of Maimonides
• Dr. Benjamin Brown — Leadership of the Chazon Ish
• Mr. Yair Sheleg — Rabbi Shlomo Goren: An Out-of-Place, Momentary Prophet
• Dr. Moshe Helinger — Rabbi Abraham Kook and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shneorson: Modern Ethical Leadership

Friday, June 12th:

9:00 – 11:30 Fourth Session: Israeli Leadership

• Prof. Yoram Shachar — Leadership and Authority during the Struggle for Independence
• Mr. Yakov Sharet — The Leadership of Moshe Sharet
• Prof. Meron Medzini — The Leadership of Golda Meir
• Mr. David Landau — The Leadership of Ariel Sharon

11:45 – 12:30 Closing Discussion