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 Nation addresses 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.


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Dan Senor has served as a foreign policy adviser to the U.S. government, and has written extensively about the Middle East for publications including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Senor has lived and studied in Canada, and now lives in New York.

Saul Singer is the editorial page editor for the Jerusalem Post. William Kristol wrote: “No one else. . . has written regularly about Israel in recent years with more unapologetic honesty, and with more unselfconscious moral clarity, than Singer.” Singer lives in Jerusalem.


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