The Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Israel Office, invite you to an international conference: “For a Middle East Free of Nuclear Weapons and Weapons of Mass Destruction”, tomorrow, Thursday, December 5, at the Dan Panorama Hotel, Sderot Hanassi 107, Haifa; and on Friday, December 6, at the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Sderot Hanassi 89, Haifa. The conference will be held in Hebrew and English with simultaneous translation.
![Issam Makhoul (in the middle of the picture) in a demonstration against nuclear weapons in New York (photo: United Nations)](http://maki.org.il/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013-12-04.jpg)
Issam Makhoul (in the middle of the picture) in a demonstration against nuclear weapons in New York (photo: United Nations)
Thursday 05.12.2013
09:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 11:00 Opening Panel: “From Mutual Threat to Collective Security”
Chairperson: Prof. Naomi Chazan Former MK., Dean of School of Government and Society at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo
Prof. Tadatoshi Akiba – “From Hiroshima to a World-Free of Nuclear Weapons” Former Mayor of Hiroshima & President of “Mayors for Peace”, Chairman of MPI (Middle Powers Initiative)
Avraham Burg – “Is the Middle East ripe to adopt new ideas?” Former Speaker of Israeli Knesset, Senior Fellow and International Coordinator of Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue
Issam Makhoul – “From the old nuclear order to a Middle East free of nuclear weapons” Former MK, Chairman of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies
Dr. Emily Landau – “The Long and Winding Road to Helsinki: Should we Start Talking?” Senior Researcher at the National Security Institute, Head of Project on Weapon Control and Regional Security
11:00 – 11:10 Interval
11:10 – 11:15 Welcome Greetings – Yona Yahav, mayor of Haifa.
11:15 – 12:00 Open Discussion: “From Mutual Threat to Collective Security”
12:00 – 12:15 Interval
12:15 – 13:30 Second Panel: “Round-Table Discussion: The Nuclear Issue in the Knesset” Led by MK. Dr. Dov Khenin
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:30 Workshops:
– Nuclear Involvement under International Law – Humanitarian Implications of Use of Nuclear Weapons Dr. Johny Aassi, Nadav Shaltiel, Dr. Henry Lowendorf
– Nucleus, Society and Democracy – Nuclear Opacity or Public Discussion
Gideon Spiro, former MK Tamar Gozansky
– Nucleus and Environment
Former MK Mousi Raz, Dr. Thabet Abu Ras
15:30 – 15:45 Interval
15:45 – 17:15 Third Panel: “Iranian threat, Israeli Threat – Option of a Middle East free of Nuclear and Mass Destruction Weapons” Chairperson: Alfred Marder Honorary President of International Association of Peace Messenger Cities – IAPMC
Prof. Colman Altman – “Nucleus and Oil in the Middle East” Emeritus Professor, Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Prof. Uri Bar-Joseph – “The Iranian Threat: A Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone as an Israeli Option” Department of International Relations, School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa
Sharon Dolev – “Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone in Middle East: Obstacles and Ways”
Director, “Israeli Anti-Nuclear Movement”
19:30 – 21:00 Festive Session Open to General Public, Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Sderot Hanassi 89, Haifa
Reception by Haifa Municipality, Artistic Program and Short Addresses: Yona Yahav – Mayor of Haifa; Dr. Angelika Timm– Director, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Israel and Alfred Marder – Chairman of International Committee for Haifa International Conference
Friday 06.12.2013
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Sderot Hanassi 89, Haifa
09:30 – 11:00 “The Role of Europe in Face of Nuclearization of the Middle East and the Need for its Demilitarization”, under the auspices of GUE/NGL – European United Left/Nordic Green Left
11:00 – 11:15 Interval
11:15 – 12:45: “Round-Table Discussion: Civil Society and the Anti-Nuclear Movement”
Jackie Cabasso
Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation, “United for Peace and Justice”
Dr. Ruhama Marton
Founder and President of “Physicians for Human Rights – Israel”.
Aida Touma–Sliman
Founder and Director of “Women against Violence”, “Al Itihad” daily newspaper Editor in Chief.
12:45 – 13:00 Interval
13:00 – 14:00 Closing Session