The Gaza war and an expanding zone of regional conflict have far-reaching implications for Israel, the Middle East, and the broader international order.
What kind of Israel will emerge from this extended crisis? What role do Israel's allies, including the U.K., have during and after the conflict? How are the shockwaves from October 7 and the war affecting Diaspora Jews' identity, safety and their relationship with Israel? How do allies committed to liberal democracy relate to a hard-right Israeli government? Who are the Palestinian partners for building a common future?
Haaretz's London conference will host prominent political leaders, analysts and activists from Israel and the U.K. to engage with the most pressing issues facing Israel and the Middle East today, and what a post-war landscape may look like.
Speakers from across Israeli and UK media, politics, academia, and leadership including:
- Ehud Olmert, Former Israeli Prime Minister
- The Rt Hon Sir Tony Blair KG, Former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (Recorded Session)
- Dr. Nasser Alkidwa, Former Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Member of Fatah Central Committee
- Hamish Falconer MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan)
- Member of Knesset Ayman Odeh, Leader of the Hadash–Ta'al party
- Member of Knesset Naama Lazimi, The Democrats Party; Chair of the Knesset's Youth Committee
- Raymond Simonson, Chief Executive Officer, JW3
- Atira Winchester, Director of Content and Leadership, New Israel Fund UK
- Jonathan Freedland, Guardian Columnist and co-host of Unholy: Two Jews on the News
- Dr. Rula Hardal, Co-Director, A Land For All - Two States, One Homeland
- Meron Rapoport, Co-Founder of A Land for All and Content Director for the Israeli branch
- Dr. Shai Agmon, Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Academic Director of Molad
- Dr. Ayala Panievsky, Researcher specializing in media under attack, University of Cambridge
- David Davidi-Brown, Chief Executive of New Israel Fund (UK)
- Uri Weltmann, National Field Organizer, Standing Together
- Sharone Lifschitz, Filmmaker, Daughter of Oded and Yocheved Lifshitz, and daughter of Kibbutz Nir Oz
- Sondos Saleh, Former Member of the Knesset and leader at Standing Together
- Daniella Peled, Managing Editor of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting
- Amos Shocken, Haaretz Publisher
- Aluf Benn, Haaretz Editor in Chief
- Noa Landau, Haaretz Deputy Editor-in-Chief; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, Advisory Board Member
- Esther Solomon, Editor in Chief Haaretz English
- Adam Wagner, Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers and Visiting Professor of Law at Goldsmiths, University of London
- Rt Hon Alistair Burt, Distinguished Fellow, RUSI; Minister for the Middle East 2010-13, 2017-19
- Hannah Weisfeld, Executive Director of Yachad
- Hugh Lovatt, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
- Luke Tryl, Executive Director, More in Common UK
- Yossi Mekelburg, Professor of International Relations and Senior Consulting Fellow, MENA Programme, Chatham House
- Ori Kol, Campaigner, founder of Mehazkim and FakeReporter
- Magen Inon, Educator and peace activist whose parents were murdered on October 7th
- Orit Eyal-Fibeesh, Co-founder of We Democracy and 7/10 Human Chain movement
- Lord Michael Levy, Former Personal Envoy and Special Advisor on Middle East to Prime Minister Tony Blair
- Roy Schwartz, Senior magazine editor in Haaretz news desk
- Sir Mick Davis, Former Chair of the Jewish Leadership Council; former CEO of the British Conservative Party
- Dr. Ayala Panievsky, Research Fellow, City University and University of Cambridge
- Mira Awad, Artist and Storytelling Consultant
- Jack Lubner, National Chair of Young Labour
- Mr. Khaled Dawas, Consultant Surgeon and Associate Professor, University College London and Emergency Medical Teams, Gaza. Board member, Abraham Initiatives UK
- James Harding, Editor and Founder, Tortoise Media
- Nomi Bar Yaakov, International Negotiator, Mediator & Arbitrator and Associate Fellow in International Security Programme at Chatham House
- Nivi Feldman, Co-Leader Hostages and Missing Families Forum UK
- Noam Lubell, Professor of International Law of Armed Conflict, University of Essex
- Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler, Associate Professor of International Refugee Law, Visiting Professor Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Johannesburg
- Dalia Blass, Youth and Student Worker, Yachad
- Joel Rosen, Youth and Students Officer, Jewish Labour Movement; Trustee, New Israel Fund UK; former President of the Union of Jewish Students
- Noah Katz, Chair of the Under 35 Assembly, Board of Deputies of British Jews
- Sami Berkof, President, Union of Jewish Students
- Dr. Rob Geist Pinfold, International Peace and Security (Durham University)
- Elisabeth Sharp, Mazkira for Noam Masorti Youth
- Richard Miron, Former BBC Foreign Affairs Reporter & former UN Middle East Spokesperson
- Jonathan Valfer, Former Knesset Relations Manager at the Israel Democracy Institute and Former Chairperson of Jerusalem Open House for Pride and Tolerance
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