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. The book has reached #5 on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal business bestseller lists, and is also a bestseller in Israel, India, and Singapore.

The book has sparked reactions as diverse as Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declaring, “We are the Start-Up Nation!” to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria calling it “A book every single Arab businessman, Arab bureaucrat, and Arab politician should read.” Citing Start-Up Nation, the Economist proclaimed, “Over the past two decades Israel has been transformed from a semisocialist backwater into a high-tech superpower.”

In addition to the Jerusalem Post, Singer has written for the Wall Street JournalNewsweek, CNN-Opinion, Commentary, the Wilson Quarterly, and other publications.  He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.

Talks

Saul Singer - Start-Up Technology in Israel

How does a small country like Israel produce such a high-density of influential technology start-ups?...