Conference Circuit

Curiously, Kadima'S new leader, Tzipi Livni, is not listed among the speakers at the Naamat-sponsored conference Women -The Power to Grow.

By GREER FAY CASHMAN
Conference Circuit 88 (photo credit: Courtesy)
Conference Circuit 88
(photo credit: Courtesy)
Sunday, September 21 THE ISRAEL Museum and its International Council will host the Thirteenth World Congress of the World Federation of Friends of Museums (WFFM) over a weeklong period. The WFFM is an international nonprofit organization that represents some two million individual friends of museums, grouped in national federations as well as in numerous single associations throughout the world. The congress affords local friends and members of the Israel Museum the opportunity to connect with friends of museums from other countries. The congress will take place at Jerusalem's Inbal Hotel. All sessions are in English unless otherwise stated, with simultaneous translations in Spanish. THE HASSLES of Israeli bureaucracy and tax laws do little to facilitate the easy absorption of new immigrants. Financial seminars for recent olim try to compensate. Philip Braude of Anglo Capital will explain the new tax laws for recent olim at 7 p.m., at Telfed, 19 Schwartz Street, Ra'anana. He will do so again in Jerusalem on Thursday, September 25, at 7 p.m., at the OU Center, 22 Keren Hayesod Street. The seminars are free of charge, but reservations are required. Contact dsiegel@anglocapital.com or call (02)992 1519. THE CENTER for European Studies at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, in cooperation with the Israel Council on Foreign Relations, will host a lecture by French Justice Minister Rachida Dati on France in the Process of Change: Law, Reform and Society. It will take place at 5 p.m. in the IDC's Atara-Kaufman Auditorium, Arison-Lauder Building, Kanfei Nesharim St., Herzliya. The event will be conducted in French with simultaneous translations into Hebrew and English, with discussion afterwards. Transportation to and from the event is available from Tel Aviv (Arlozorov Station, park and drive parking lot, departure at 4 p.m.) and from Jerusalem (Inbal Hotel parking lot, departure at 3:15 p.m.). Return transportation will be immediately after the lecture. RSVP: (09)952-7260 or e-mail rsvp@idc.ac.il and indicate if transportation is required. A TWO-day symposium devoted to the 30th anniversary of the Camp David Accords will be co-hosted by the Menachem Begin Heritage Center and Bar-Ilan University's BESA Center. The opening session at the Begin Center will commence at 7 p.m. with Israel's fifth president, Yitzhak Navon, as the keynote speaker. On Monday, there will be three discussion periods at Bar-Ilan University. As seats are limited in both venues and advance reservations should be made. Call (02)565-2020 or e-mail offices@begincenter.org.il. Monday, September 22 CURIOUSLY, KADIMA'S new leader, Tzipi Livni, is not listed among the speakers at the Naamat-sponsored conference Women -The Power to Grow, but Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Welfare and Social Services Minister Isaac Herzog are. The keynote speaker will be French Justice Minister Rachida Dati. The conference will commence at 9 a.m. at Tel Aviv's Dan Panorama Hotel. LEADING ECONOMISTS and bankers will lecture to members of The Friends of Tel Aviv University's Business and Academic Club on Israel and globalization and the impact of the international financial crisis on Israel. The event will take place at the Green House, 24 George Wise Street, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, September 23 DEFENSE MINISTER Ehud Barak, Agriculture Minister Shalom Simhon and Minister for the Development of the Negev and the Galilee Ami Ayalon will be the guests of honor at the convention of the Moshav Movement at the Be'er Tuviya Academic Campus. The venue was chosen as a sign of cooperation between academia and the Moshav Movement. A large number of young people from moshavim are Be'er Tuviya alumni or currently enrolled there. Wednesday, September 24 MEMBERS OF the business community who want to brush up on their knowledge of the recreation of the Big Bang will be given an insight in laymen's terms by Prof. Marek Karliner of Tel Aviv University's Physics Department. Several TAU scientists were among the 40 Israeli scientists who are involved in the biggest scientific project ever, which is taking place in Geneva. The lecture will take place at TAU's Bar Shira auditorium at 7 p.m. THE THIRD National Conference on Promoting Mental Health Among Women will be held over a two-day period at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. More than 400 professionals from all fields of mental health will participate. DEMOCRATS AND Republicans will battle it out in dialogue form at the next session of Afternoons with IPCRI. Representatives of both parties will discuss Obama, McCain and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process. The event will take place at Jerusalem's Ambassador Hotel at 11 a.m.