The Bar Ilan Speech was given by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2009 in the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Bar Ilan. In the speech, which details Netanyahu’s policy vision for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, he expressed support in principle for the first time for the establishment of a Palestinian state next to the State of Israel, on the condition that it would be demilitarized and that the Palestinians would recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people.