Higher Education Forum: Session No.38: Separation, academia and politics-dangerous relationships

Meeting Number 38 -January 17,2018

On the subject : Separation, academia and politics – dangerous relationships

Prof. Hanoch Gutfreund Former Chairman of “Basha’ar”
Mr. Yohanan Plesner , President of the Israel Democracy Institute
Prof. Zehev Tadmor , Chairman of the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research

First Session

Moderator:  Prof. Yedidya Stern, Vice President of Research, Israel Democracy Institute

Prof. Amnon Rubinstein , former Minister of Education
Ms. Adina Bar Shalom , Israel Prize laureate for her special contribution to the society
Prof. Hanoch Dagan, Senior Fellow of the Israel Democracy Institute; Tel Aviv University
Dr. Moshe Helinger , Department of Political Science, Bar Ilan University
Adv. Tziona Koenig Yair, Vice President of the Shalom Hartman Institute, Former Commissioner for Equal Opportunities at Wo
Prof. Frances Raday, Hebrew University, President of the Concord Center at Colman

Second Session

Moderator : Prof. Hagit Messer – Yaron, Tel Aviv University, chairwoman of ‘Bashaar’
opening Remarks : Prof. Yaffa Zilbershatz , Chairman of the Planning and Budgeting Committee

Prof. Manuel Trajtenberg , Tel Aviv University
Prof. Ron Shapira , President of the Peres Academic Center
Dr. Yofi Tirosh , Head of the School of Law, Sapir Academic College
Prof. Zehev Tadmor , Chairman of the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research