Government Corruption and Populism
12:00–12:15 | Opening Remarks
Justice Dorit Beinish (retired), Former President of the Supreme Court and Chair of the steering committee of the Campaign against Public Corruption Program at the Israel Democracy Institute
Dr. Alexander Brakel, Director of the Israel office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
12:15-14:00 | First Session: Government Corruption and Populism: The Chronicles of Consciousness Process
Moderator: Prof. Yuval Shany, Vice President for Research, Israel Democracy Institute
Prof. Tamar Hermann, Academic Director, Guttman Center of Public Opinion and Policy Research, Israel Democracy Institute
Prof. Yuval Feldman, Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
Dr. Noam Gidron, Department of Political Science, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alon Altaras, writer, poet, and translator
Dr. Tamar Hostovsky Brandes, Faculty of Law, Ono Academic College
Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer, Senior Fellow, Israel Democracy Institute
14:30-16:30 | Second Session: From Top to Bottom: Exposing and Preventing Corruption
Moderator: Adv. Edna Harel Fisher, Director of the Public Corruption program, Israel Democracy Institute
Ioannis Kampourakis, Faculty of Law. University of Oxford
Adv. Orly Levinson-Sela, former Deputy Director of the Ombudsman Bureau, Office of the State Comptroller
Prof. John R. Heilbrunn, Associate Professor, The Colorado School of Mines
Adv. Amit Merari, Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Law, Ministry of Justice
Major General (retired) Meni Itzhaki, Israel Police
Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer, Israel Democracy Institute
Summary: Justice Dorit Beinish (retired), Former President of the Supreme Court
17:00-19:00 | Third Session: From One Pocket to Another: Government Corruption in an Economic Crisis on the Backdrop of Populist Trends
Moderator: Yohanan Plesner, President, Israel Democracy Institute
Dr. Julio Bacio Terracino, Acting Head of the Division on Integrity in the Public Sector, Directorate for Public Governance, OECD
Prof. Karnit Flug, Vice President for Research, Israel Democracy Institute
Aaron Fogel, Chairman of Ayalon Holdings and Former Director General, Ministry of Finance
Prof. Guy Rolnik, Associate Publisher, Haaretz; Founder and former editor in chief of The Marker
Summary: Prof. Yuval Shany, Israel Democracy Institute
The conference will be in Hebrew with simultaneous English translation and streamed live on the Israel Democracy Institute https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89369996655