Sessions at IDI's Conference on Military Insubordination, Protest and Society explored the following topics:
- Evacuation of settlements: An assignment for the army or civil authorities?
- Obeying orders: What are the limits?
- The limits of civil protest: Test cases
- Protest and insubordination in Israeli society
Among the thinkers and public figures who joined IDI's Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer, Prof. Yedidia Stern, Prof. Yaron Ezrahi, Rabbi Yitzhak Levy, and Dr. Moshe Hellinger were:
- Mr. Shlomo Aharonishky, High Commissioner (Ret.) of the Israeli Police
- Former MK Dr. Yehuda Ben Meir, the Institute for National Security Studies
- Former MK Prof. Naomi Chazan, President of the New Israel Fund
- Major General (ret.) Uzi Dayan, Former Head of the National Security Council
- MK Prof. Aryeh Eldad (National Union), former IDF Chief Medical Officer
- MK Tzipi Hotoveli of the Likud
- Rabbi Elyakim Levanon of Elon Moreh
- Commander (ret.) Mickey Levi, former Jerusalem Chief of Police
- Prof. Aryeh Reich, Dean of the Law Faculty of Bar Ilan University
- Former IDF Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin Shahak, former MK and Minister of Transportation
The sessions generated a great deal of debate among panelists and members of the audience in the packed auditorium.