The Israel Democracy Institute's Amnon Lipkin-Shahak Program on National Security and Democracy Presents: "Commemorating 30 Years Since the Capture of Ron Arad"
Beit Hel Ha'Avir, 15 Jabotinsky Street, Herzliya
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Moderator: Dr. Ilana Dayan, Host of 'Uvda', Israel's leading investigative program, on Keshet Broadcasting, Channel 2.
Schedule of Events:
16:30: Welcoming reception
17:00: Opening remarks: Ronen Merav, Ron Arad's friend and piloting course colleague.
17:15: Israel's Obligations to its Soldiers: At Any Price?' Perspectives of Israeli prisoners freed as part of government agreements.
- Admiral (Reserves) Ami Ayalon, former director of Israel Security Agency (the Shin Bet); Senior Fellow and Director of IDI's Amnon Lipkin-Shahak Program on National Security and Democracy.
- Professor Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Professor Yedidia Stern, Vice President of Research, Israel Democracy Institute.
18:45: General Hagai Topolansky, Head of the IDF's Personnel Directorate.
19:00: How is a prisoner release negotiation actually conducted?
'Published': Ilana Dayan interviews David Meidan, former senior ranking Mossad official and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coordinator on the issue of POWs and MIAs.
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