Dan Senor

Saul Singer

"What the world can learn from Israel's meteoric economic success."--Provided by the publisher.

The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

Start-up Nation

How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and economic divides, proven resistant to so many of the societal ills plaguing other wealthy democracies?

Why do Israelis have among the world’s highest life expectancies and lowest rates of “deaths of despair” from suicide and substance abuse? Why is Israel’s population young and growing while all other wealthy democracies are aging and shrinking? How can it be that Israel, according to a United Nations ranking, is the fourth happiest nation in the world? Why do Israelis tend to look to the future with hope, optimism, and purpose while the rest of the West struggles with an epidemic of loneliness, teen depression, and social decline?

Dan Senor and Saul Singer, the writers behind the international bestseller Start-Up Nation, have long been students of the global innovation race. But as they spent time with Israel’s entrepreneurs and political leaders, soldiers and students, scientists and activists, ultra-Orthodox Jews, Tel Aviv techies, and Israeli Arabs, they realized that they had missed what really sets Israel apart.

Moving from military commanders integrating at-risk youth and people who are neurodiverse into national service, to high performing companies making space for working parents, from dreamers and innovators launching a duct-taped spacecraft to the moon, to bringing better health solutions to people around the world, The Genius of Israel tells the story of a diverse people and society built around the values of service, solidarity, and belonging.

Widely admired for having the world’s highest density of high-tech start-ups, Israel’s greatest innovation may not be a technology at all, but Israeli society itself. Understanding how a country facing so many challenges can be among the happiest provides surprising insights into how we can confront the crisis of community, human connectedness, and purpose in modern life.

Bold, timely, and insightful, Senor and Singer’s latest work shines an important light on the impressive innovative distinctions of Israeli society—and what other communities and countries can learn.

The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

The Genius of Israel

A fascinating expert look at Israel’s meteoric rise in the global economy — with timely hints for a world reeling from financial crisis Start-Up Nationaddresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel — a country of 7.1 million, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war, with no natural resources — produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful nations like Canada, Japan, China, India, and the U.K.? With the savvy of foreign policy insiders, Senor and Singer examine Israeli culture and government to reveal the secrets behind the world’s first ever “start-up nation.” As countries across the globe restart their own economies, and as businesses try to re-energize their entrepreneurial spirit, we can all look to Israel for some impressive, surprising clues. From the Hardcover edition.

A journalist takes a close-up look at how Israelis continue to live and work with the everyday violence and threats of terrorism, assesses the Israeli reaction to the conflict in Iraq and to the problem posed by Islamic fundamentalists in Palestine, and provides key insights and observations on America's continuing battle against terrorism.

Israel's Struggle & The World After 9/11

Confronting Jihad

From the coauthors of the New York Times bestseller Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle comes the highly anticipated follow up, The Genius of Israel, which outlines the defining factors behind Israel’s successful track record of innovation and explaining how other nations can learn from its development. In Start-Up Nation, Saul Singer and Dan Senor addressed the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources—produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? Providing an astute analysis of Israel’s unique policies and culture, and practical conclusions about how other nations could learn from its example, Start-Up Nation became a worldwide bestseller, translated into thirty languages. Now in their illuminating follow-up, The Genius of Israel, Senor and Singer study the global innovation race and present a new universal metric to evaluate where different nations stand in the quest to achieve new levels of innovation. They analyze the favorable and unfavorable circumstances that affect a country’s chance of making a dramatic leap forward, and illustrate how the world has greatly changed over the last decade. Bold, timely, and remarkably insightful, Senor and Singer’s latest work shines an important light on the impressive innovative accomplishments of Israel.

What One Small Nation Can Teach the World

Comment se fait-il qu'Israël - un pays d'à peine plus de 7 millions d'habitants, fondé il y a 60 ans, constamment en guerre depuis et ne disposant d'aucune ressource naturelle - soit à l'origine de la création et du développement de davantage d'entreprises de haute technologie que des pays plus importants, plus anciens et qui vivent en paix comme le Japon, la Chine, l'Inde, la Corée du sud, le Canada, le Royaume-Uni ou la France ? A partir de très nombreux exemples de chefs d'entreprises et d'investisseurs israéliens parmi les plus éminents, Dan Senor et Saul Singer expliquent pourquoi et comment Israël a développé une combinaison unique d'obstination et de résilience qui peut expliquer ses succès économiques. Comme le montrent les auteurs, Israël n'est pas "seulement un pays" mais un état d'esprit. Depuis la fondation de l'Etat d'Israël et à travers ses choix politiques et industriels, c'est la spontanéité, la détermination et la prise de risques qui caractérisent l'histoire du pays. Sur le plan culturel et géopolitique, Senor et Singer expliquent comment l'histoire d'Israël, sa politique d'intégration des immigrants, ses ressources en Recherche et Développement et le recours à la conscription ont été des facteurs clés du développement économique du pays, et de quelles menaces ce modèle doit se prémunir. La littérature sur le Moyen-Orient est très abondante mais, étonnamment, elle ne permettait pas, jusqu'à la publication de ce livre, de comprendre en quoi l'histoire, la stratégie et la politique sont à l'origine de la croissance économique d'Israël. Au moment où la plupart des pays capitalistes s'interrogent sur de possibles nouveaux ressorts de croissance, il était particulièrement opportun de s'intéresser à ce petit pays remarquable de dynamisme pour y chercher quelques éléments de réponse.

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