| Hour | Location | Activity | Topic | Participants |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | YMCA Patio | Arrival & Registration | ||
| 09:30 - 11:00 | YMCA Auditorium | Parallel Round Table Sessions | The Infrastructure of Pilgrimage | |
| Table One The Ascent to Jerusalem YMCA Auditorium | Facilitator: Arch. Osnat Post Director of Green Pilgrim Jerusalem Planning Team Speakers: Avner Haramati Chair, Jerusalem Intercultural Center, Organizational Psychologist, Green Pilgrim Jerusalem Planning Team Avner Goren, Member of Kidron Valley/Wadi el Nar Project and Green Pilgrimage Network teams, Israel's Country Director of The Abraham's Path Initiative, co-chair of Israel's chapter of Engineers Without Borders Gidi Bashan, Community Forestry, Keren Kayemet l'Yisrael (KKL) Maoz Inon, Co-owner and founder of the ''Abraham Hostel'' Jerusalem, ''Jesus Trail'' and the ''Fauzi Azar Inn'' - a Responsible Tourism Award Winner for best accommodation for local community Georg Roessler, Co-Director of SK Tours in Nature | |||
| Table Two “People Infrastructure”: Planning “by the people, for the people” | Facilitator: Yael Marom-Avissar, Head of Accessibility Dept, Jerusalem Municipality Speakers: Arch. Yael Danieli-Lahav, Accessibility Consultant, Ariel University Smadar Shenin, Chair, Jewish Quarter Community Council, Old City of Jerusalem Count Philippe Piccapietra, Grand Chancellor of the Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem Eviatar Levine, Magen David Adom Kamal Abdu, “Inclusion” –Engineer & Accessibility Specialist Meir Hendelsman, Yad Sarah | |||
| Table Three The Contribution of Holy Sites and Communities to Pilgrimage: | Facilitator: Alison Hilliard, Deputy Director, Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) | |||
| The Armenian Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem: An ancient community and its traditions | Speakers: Father Goossan & Historian of the Armenian Patriarchate, Jerusalem | |||
| St. Georges’s Compound: Green Hotel Development for Pilgrims | Arch. & Prof. Moshe Margalith, UNESCO Chair on Modern Heritage, Head of Tel Aviv Institute for Architecture, Environment, Culture & Community & Head of Planning Team of St. Georges Compound | |||
| Religion, Tradition and the Value of Eco-System Management | The Reverend Canon John Organ (Residential Canon and Bishop's Chaplain), The Cathedral of St. George the Martyr, The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem | |||
| Mount Zion: Ancient Heritage Outside the Old City Walls | Gidon Shamir, Coordinator of Mount Zion Initiative Arch. Shachar Puni, Israel Antiquities Authority Haggai Snir, Director, Intercultural Center, Mount Zion Eviatar HaCohen, Nature and Parks’ Authority | |||
| The Role of the Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations | Dr. Sarah Bernstein, Director Jerusalem Center for Jewish-Christian Relations (JCJCR) Christian Faith Leaders (TBC) | |||
| Dilemmas of the Christian Communities in Jerusalem | Inspector Johnny Kassabri, Liaison Officer for Christian Communities & Affairs in Jerusalem | |||
| The Center of Hope, Jerusalem | Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Director, The Elijah Interfaith Institute, Jerusalem | |||
| The Greenways Network Project: Linking Nature, People and Cultural Heritage | Luis Andrés Orive, PhD Forestry Engineer, Vitoria-Gasteiz, European Green Capital 2012 Project Manager | |||
| Table Four Ethics of the Public Domain Part III | Facilitator: Naomi Tsur, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem and Green Pilgrimage Ambassador Speakers: Prof. Alistair Bath, Dept. of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland Dr. José Bernal Stoopen, Director-General of Zoological Gardens and Wildlife, Mexico City Daniel Milo, Director, The Center of Ethics, Mishkenot Sha’ananim Sandra Manley, Associate Head of Department of Planning & Architecture and Urban Design, University of West England (UWE), Bristol Dr. Kusum Vyas, Founder of the Green Kumbh Movement and GYAN initiatives of Living Planet Foundation Rav Yehuda A. Horovitz, Haredim l’Sviva (Orthodox Jews for the Environment) | |||
| Table Five The Culture of Urban Planning | Facilitator: Ofer Manor, Chief Architect, City of Jerusalem | |||
| Architecture is Each People's Dialogue with their Environment | Speakers: Dr. Laurence Brahm, Founder of The Himalayan Consensus Institute and Shambhala Serai Group | |||
| Austrian Hospice in Jerusalem | Arch. Zev Baran, on behalf of Rector Markus St. Bugnyar, Director of the Austrian Hospice in Jerusalem | |||
| The Mount of Olives – A Historic Cemetery in a Heritage Landscape | Jeff Daube, Co-Chair, Israel Steering Committee, The International Committee for the Preservation of Har HaZeitim | |||
| Flora of the Holy Land – Jerusalem Botanical Gardens | Sue Surkes, Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, co-writer and producer of “Flora of the Holy Land” | |||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | YMCA Lobby & Outside Patio | Light Refreshments | ||
| 11:30 - 13:00 | YMCA Auditorium | Special Plenary Session | Pilgrim Cities and Routes in Israel present their challenges and vision | Facilitator: Naomi Tsur, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem and Green Pilgrimage Ambassador |
| National Chapters of a Global Network | Speakers: Alison Hilliard, Deputy Director, Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) | |||
| The Bahai World Center, Haifa and co-founders of the Green Pilgrimage Network | Jalal Hatami, Deputy Secretary-General, Baha’i International Community | |||
| The Gospel Trail | Uri Sharon, Aide to the Director-General, Israel Ministry of Tourism | |||
| The Abraham Path | Avner Goren, Member of Kidron Valley/Wadi el Nar Project and Green Pilgrimage Network teams, Israel's Country Director of The Abraham's Path Initiative, co-chair of Israel's chapter of Engineers Without Borders | |||
| The Jesus Trail | Maoz Inon, Co-owner and founder of the ''Abraham Hostel'' Jerusalem, ''Jesus Trail'' and the ''Fauzi Azar Inn'' - a Responsible Tourism Award Winner for best accommodation for local community | |||
| Acre - Ashdod – Eddie Ben Layish, Director of the Tourism Development Company of Ashdod Beersheba – Lilach Harel, Tourism Coordinator, Old City Project, Ronit Ivki, Sustainability Coordinator Dalit El-Karmel – Mayor Carmel Nasser-Al Din and Hasson Bashir, Director of Foreign Relations & Tourism Haifa – Danny Ronen, Director of Tourism Association and Hedva Almog, Deputy Mayor Jerusalem – Naomi Tsur, Deputy Mayor & Green Pilgrimage Ambassador Kfar Kana - Merom-Hagalil – Ayal Damari, Deputy Mayor of the Regional Council Nazareth - Safed – Mayor Ilan Shochat Tiberias – Deputy Mayor, Shmuel Hermesh and City Engineer, Moti Lavie | ||||
| 13:00 - 14:00 | YMCA Lobby & Patio | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Parallel Round Table Sessions | Table One: Transport Challenges in the City of Jerusalem | Facilitator: Arch. Osnat Post, Director of Green Pilgrim Jerusalem Planning Team | |
| Jerusalem’s special significance within the national transport system | Speakers: Yehuda Elbaz, Director of Public Transport, Ministry of Transport | |||
| Connecting the Dots in Jerusalem | Nadav Meroz, Director of the Jerusalem Transport Master Plan Team (JTMT) | |||
| Transportation on Pilgrim and Festival Days | Kobi Bartov, Director of Transport & Infrastructure, Jerusalem Municipality | |||
| The Elevator from the Western Wall Plaza to the Jewish Quarter | Arch. Yehuda Sharki, The Jewish Quarter Development Company | |||
| Table Two: One Design Does Not Fit All | Facilitator: Dr. Avi Ramot, Director, Israel Accessibility Center, The Shekel Association – Community Services for People with Special Needs Speakers: Arch. Peter Bogod, Bogod-Figardo Architects, Jerusalem Meirav Davish Ben-Moshe, Landscape Architect Arch. Gad Ma-Tov, Director-General, ''Tangible Solutions'' Arch. Tali Cohen-Anderson, Acting Head of Accessibility Department, Municipality of Jerusalem | |||
| Table Three "Waste Not, Want Not" YMCA Auditorium | Facilitator: Dr. Yoel Siegel, Director, Metro-Jerusalem URBIS, Senior Project Manager, Tag International Development | |||
| Talking Rubbish! | Nimrod Halamish, MAFTI (Jerusalem Wastewater and purification enterprises, Ltd) subsidiary of Gihon Water Company | |||
| Green and Clean Energy for Holy Cities | Yosef Abramowitz, world-renowned Green Pioneer, President of the Arava Power Company and founder, Energiya Global | |||
| “A Holistic Approach to Green Infrastructure” | Nerys Jones, Strategic Greenspace Consultant | |||
| Sewage as a Resource in the Soreq Valley | Dr. Yehiel Menuhin, Senior Consultant, The Jerusalem Sewage Water and Purification Enterprises Ltd. | |||
| ChaiPlanet – Donating Renewable Energy to Charity | Joe Van Zwaren, Vice-President, Business Development, Leviathan Energy & Founder of the Jerusalem Business Networking Forum | |||
| Table Four The River as a Bridge: A Case Study of the Wadi El Nar - Kidron Valley Initiative | Facilitator: Richard Laster, Professor of Environmental Law & Policy, Hebrew University, Chair: Kidron Valley/Wadi el Nar Steering Committee Speakers: Arch. Arie Rahamimoff and Arch. Liora Meron, Leaders of Kidron/Wadi el Nar Planning Team Muhammad Nakhal, Community Consultant to Kidron/Wadi el Nar Planning Team and Green Pilgrim Jerusalem Avner Goren, Member of Kidron Valley/Wadi el Nar Project and Green Pilgrimage Network teams, Israel's Country Director of The Abraham's Path Initiative, co-chair of Israel's chapter of Engineers Without Borders | |||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | YMCA Lobby & Outside Patio | Light Refreshments | ||
| 16:00 - 16:10 | YMCA Auditorium | Closing Musical Recital | Emma Wolfin Golding and Judith Litoff | |
| 16:15 - 18:00 | Closing Plenary Session | Wrapping-up | Facilitator: Dr. Laurence Brahm, Founder of The Himalayan Consensus Institute and Shambhala Serai Group | |
| Equal rights for people with disability: The Israeli vision in a global context | Ahiya Kamara, Commissioner of Equal Rights, Ministry of Justice | |||
| The Green Pilgrimage Network Going Forward | Alison Hilliard, Deputy Director, Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) | |||
| Symposium Moments | SPNI Community TV Presents Highlights | |||
| Symposium Summary – Delegates are Invited to Share their Thoughts as the Symposium Draws to a Close | Naomi Tsur, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem & Green Pilgrimage Network Ambassador | |||
| 18:30 - 19:30 | The Western Wall Plaza | Hosted by the Rabbi of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz | Welcoming the Swifts on their Annual Pilgrimage to the Western Wall | Speakers: Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation Prof. Yossi Leshem, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, Founder & Director of the International Center for the Study of Bird Migration at Latrun, Israel, established by the Tel Aviv University Amnonn Hahn, Director of the Friends of the Swifts Association, Coordinator of the Annual Swifts Welcoming Ceremony Naomi Tsur, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem & Green Pilgrimage Network Ambassador |
