The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

December 9, at 17:00

Prague Center for Transatlantic Relations and ALIGIER cordially invite you to a launch of the Czech translation of the book The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World, and a discussion with its author, Saul Singer, on Monday, December 9, at 17:00 at CEVRO, Jungmannova 17, Prague 1
Tomáš Pojar and Michael Žantovský will moderate it.
If you want to attend, please register below
Dan Senor and Saul Singer, authors of the iconic 2009 Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, wrote their new book, The Genius of Israel, before October 7 2023. In another New York Times bestseller, they deal with fundamental aspects of Israeli society that are deeply embedded within the nation.
This work shines an important light on the impressive innovative distinctions of Israeli society—and what other communities and countries can learn.
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 many 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 ageing 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?
Saul Singer is a former Editorial Page Editor and columnist at the Jerusalem Post. In Israel, Singer has briefed visiting executives from or spoken at the Israeli headquarters of companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, Xerox, General Electric, IBM, AT&T, Microsoft, and DuPont. Before moving to Israel in 1994, he served for ten years as an advisor to different US Members of Congress and on the staffs of the US House Foreign Affairs and Senate Banking Committees.
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