On September 3, 2018, the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies convened a conference on "The Oslo Process 25 Years On".
Conference Video
โPalestine refugeesโ have been exceptionally indulged by the international community for 70 long years. Consider the ways: They should not even have been classified as refugees, they had the unprecedented benefit of a relief agency created exclusively for their welfare (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA), and they uniquely can pass on the โrefugeeโ status to future generations.
Videos from the February 22 international conference on Strategic Challenges in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Gulf, convened by the BESA Center and B'nai B'rith International.
On November 1, 2017, the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and Bar-Ilan Univeristy co-hosted the "Be'er Sheva Dialogue" at the Renaissance Tel Aviv Hotel. The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, Prime Minister of Australia, was in attendance.
On June 26, 2017, Minister Zeev Elkin, Dr. Yossi Beilin, and Prof. Ruth Gavison debated Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidrorโs new study, which takes a fresh look at Israelโs options in Judea and Samaria and seeks to chart a path forward that will secure its national security while leaving the door open to peace.
On February 21, 2017, for the second consecutive year, the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and B'nai B'rith International jointly held an international conference on Strategic Challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean. The event, which took place at the Begin-Sadat Center, involved the participation of experts from Greece, Russia, Britain, Turkey, Albania, the US, and Israel.
Shortly after the US presidential election in November, experts met the BESA Center to analyze the reasons for, and international implications of, Donald Trumpโs triumph, and to dissect the โYom Kippurโ of the liberal elite and media.
In June, experts from Belgium, Bahrain, France, Germany, India, the UK, US and Israel convened at the BESA Center and at Haifaโs National Security Studies Center for a two-day international conference to study developments in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.
Lectures delivered (in Hebrew) at a June conference on โThe Day After Abbas: Wither the Palestinian Authority?โ The conference dealt with the expected battle for succession in the PA, Israelโs diplomatic dilemmas, and likely international scenarios.
How can and should the IDF adapt to meet new threats, and respond to changes in Israeli society? This was the focus of a day-long BESA Center conference in March 2016 (Hebrew).