 The most recent conference was also co-sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation held on April 9, 2014 in New York City titled "Advancing a Weapons of Mass Destruction-Free Zone in the Middle East".Speakers included Sameh Aboul-Enein, Shlomo Brom, Hillel Schenker, and Ziad AbuZayyad.On August 11, 2009 the "Palestine–Israel Journal" awarded the first Simcha Bahiri Youth Essay Prize.