I fear for your presence in your support for our project and also for sharing your perspective I think even if we escape religion. We're arguing here. The law itself is just another form of religion so I don't know if there's anything but but these are a lot of key challenges that we face here and also a lot of opportunity so I'm really thrilled that everybody's here for this conference. I want to just reiterate and echo Bennie's introduction before how you know we work on these projects for so long and then it's very rewarding when it materializes in it so they're first and rich and a lot of materials to think about together and to develop this field together one of the really exciting aspects of the planning is when we step back and go to that you know the dream team of who can we invite to give keynote lectures and we're really thrilled tonight to ask professor. Vanya O's salzburger professor of history at the University of Haifa law school and Center for German and European studies and now I'm going to encounter the obvious problem that I'm going to limit the introduction a little bit because there's too much to read in the bio but let me just give a little bit for those who you know a little less familiar. And we're going to look forward to night for learning more of your prospectus so professor. I was Saltz. Berger has a BA MA from Tel Aviv University and a doctorate from Oxford University. She's a leading scholar in you know arrange the field including history of political thought enlightenment thought liberalism and field our particular interest in which is. Hebraic political studies and other fields that she's leading scholar and she's also a leading intellectual here in this country. You may think in thing more. Generally she has many many academic accomplishments and honors among them. She's a member of Israeli democracy Institute Institute the turban Israeli Future Forum she many honors being a senior scholar and Lincoln College and Oxford in Hornet junior research fellow and another Center in Oxford member of the European Science Foundation a fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Advanced Studies a fellow at the Federal Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin and then more recently she has been a chair for several years in modernize.

I study the Monash University in Australia and was Laurance Rockefeller visiting professor for distinguished teaching at the University Center for human values in Princeton University. He is the author of many books and volumes and articles and I'll just mention too that you might be familiar with his rallies in Berlin and Jews and works which she's a co-author and it's a thrill fan fighters tonight to get a keynote lecture.