B’nai B’rith International and The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies will jointly convene its second major international conference on “Strategic Challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean” at Bar-Ilan University in Israel on Tuesday, Feb. 21.

The conference will be held in the Nano-Technology Auditorium (Building 206) on the Bar-Ilan University campus in Israel on Tuesday, Feb. 21, from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. The proceedings will be in English, with simultaneous Hebrew translation, and is open to the public and media.

The Albanian minister of foreign affairs will speak, as well as Greek and Turkish diplomats. Former Likud Minister Gideon Sa’ar will deliver the closing address on “Israel’s Challenges in the Regional Strategic Environment.”

The international conference is a partnership between B’nai B’rith International and The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. It will survey the ongoing chaotic conditions in collapsed and failed states in the region; the rise and fall of Islamist forces in littoral lands, specifically Syria and Libya; and the emergence of new alliances, bolstered—among other factors—by energy developments. 
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