“Forty Years After Independence: Israel and the United States” will be the theme of the third Jeane Kirkpatrick Forum for Public Leadership and Public Policy to be held at Tel Aviv University December 20-21, it was announced here Sunday.
The forum is named for the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The two-day conference will discuss how Israel attained its political independence, its road to economic independence, peaceful coexistence between religion and state, and the goals and realities of nation-building.
The first Kirkpatrick forum, held in December 1986, dealt with local authority in Israel and its interaction with the government and citizens.
The second conference, in May 1987, had as its theme power-sharing and the politics of the national unity government in light of the Israeli and European experiences.
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