TEL AVIV INTERNATIONAL SALON
Top Decision Makers Speaking With TLV Young Professionals Presents:
"The Start-Up Nation's Next Step" with Saul Singer, Journalist & Author
While the whole world knows of the now famous book on Israeli
innovation, we will hear about where the Start-Up Nation is heading
for the future of Israel and the world.
Date: Thursday, May 23rd, 2013, 7:30pm-10:00pm
Venue: The Library, Midgal Shalom, 9 Ahad Ha'am Street, Tel Aviv
(Corner with Herzl Street. From the lobby, follow signs to the
elevator for The Library)
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About the Speaker: Saul Singer
Saul Singer is the co-author, with Dan Senor, of the best-selling book
"Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle". He is a
former Editorial Page Editor and columnist at the Jerusalem Post.
Singer attended the 2010 World Economic Forum’s “Summer Davos”
conference in Tianjin, spoke at Peking University, and at the Israeli
pavilion of the Shanghai Expo. He has given numerous keynotes relating
to Israel and innovation, including in Sydney, Sao Paulo, Seoul,
Mumbai, Prague, London, Brussels (at the European Parliament), Berlin
(at the German Ministry of Economics and Technology) and throughout
the United States.
Singer is currently an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy
Institute in Jerusalem and a columnist and editorial board member at
The Times of Israel. He also serves on the advisory boards of Vintage
Investment Partners, an Israeli fund of funds, and Tevel B’Tsedek, an
Israeli NGO working in Nepal and Haiti.
In addition to the Jerusalem Post, Singer has written for the Wall
Street Journal, Newsweek, CNN-Opinion and other publications. Before
moving to Israel in 1994, he served for ten years as an adviser to
different Members of Congress and on the staffs of the House Foreign
Affairs and Senate Banking Committees. Start-Up Nation is dedicated in
part to Singer’s brother, Alex Singer, who fell in battle while
serving in the IDF, and whose writings and art are collected in the
book, Alex: Building a Life. Singer lives in Jerusalem with his wife
and three children.
"Start-Up Nation", published in 2009, was highly acclaimed, reaching
fifth on the business best-seller list of The New York Times and in
the Wall Street Journal . Tom Brokaw called Start-Up Nation, “a
playbook for every CEO who wants to develop the next generation of
corporate leaders.” The book examines how Israel, a 60-year old
nation with a population of 7.1 million, was able to reach such
economic growth that "at the start of 2009, some 63 Israeli companies
were listed on the NASDAQ, more than those of any other foreign
country. The book also dwells at length on immigration and its role
in Israel's economics's growth: "Immigrants are not averse to start
from scratch. They are by definition risk-takers. A nation of
immigrants is a nation of entrepreneurs. From survivors of the
Holocaust to Soviet refuseniks through the Ethiopian Jews, the State
of Israel never ceased to be a land of immigration: 9 out of 10 Jewish
Israelis today are immigrants or descendants of immigrants the first
or second generation. This specific demographic, causing fragmentation
of community that still continues in the country, is nevertheless a
great incentive to try their luck, to take risks because immigrants
have nothing to lose.
According to Bloomberg News, former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam
Fayyad reportedly kept a copy of "Start-Up Nation" on his desk as a
source of inspiration for the West Bank's own burgeoning technology
industry.
About the Venue: The Library
The public library in the Shalom Tower served the Tel Aviv community
for many years as a hub of knowledge and independent education.
However, in our technological age, it had become an underused space,
with people finding more information online and referring less to the
shelves of their local library. The Library's Space for
Entrepreneurship takes the library's traditional values of knowledge,
education and curiosity, and infuses them with technological
innovation and start-up energy. The Library provides a shared-working
space and hub facilities for teams dedicated to developing internet
start-ups and technology companies. In addition, The Library offers
networking events, meetups, and professional infrastructure for young
entrepreneurial visionaries.
About the Organization: Tel Aviv International Salon
The Tel Aviv International Salon is the premiere English language
speakers forum in Israel. Our non-profit organization was established
in 2009 to provide a challenging, thought-provoking and intellectual
discussion forum for the young professional Tel Aviv International and
Israeli community. There are an increasing number of motivated young
professionals who are choosing to make Tel Aviv their home. The Salon
provides this community a unique forum to learn about, debate and
discuss Israeli, Jewish and world politics, history, media, economics,
social, cultural and environmental issues with the top leaders in
these fields.
