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David Rosenberg

David Rosenberg has reported from Israel on business, economics and politics for more than two decades. He was Israel bureau chief for Bloomberg News and business editor of The Jerusalem Post, and earlier worked as a correspondent for Reuters and Dow Jones. His opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Jerusalem Report among others. David is the author of the book Cloning Silicon Valley: Inside the World@@@s High Tech Hotspots (Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2001), a survey of high technology centers around the world and the factors that go into building the culture of innovation and entrepreneurialism. He contributed a chapter on The Israeli Economy for Israel: An Introduction, edited by Barry Rubin (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2011). His next book, Israel: The Knowledge Economy and Its Costs will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.
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Une classe moyenne forte : notre meilleure ligne de défense

Elle n’inspire ni envie, ni pitié. Elle est simplement là. Mais de moins en moins...

APRIL 23, 2012
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in cabinet meeting 390

Interesting Times: The summer of our discontent?

Netanyahu is constitutionally incapable of addressing the deepest issues that are the source of angst for the heart of Israel.

APRIL 5, 2012
Bank of Israel 370

Interesting Times: That shrinking feeling

The middle class is the object of neither envy nor pity. It’s just there. Or, as it turns out, it's a little less there each year.

MARCH 22, 2012

Interesting Times: We have met the enemy and . . .

Economic and technological prowess buys you some respect, but it rarely buys you friends.

FEBRUARY 23, 2012
Masbirim Israel 521

Interesting Times: Democracy in the crosshairs

Israel’s existence isn’t threatened by the New Israel Fund or the global boycott-Israel movement.

FEBRUARY 10, 2012
The Knesset 390 (R)

Interesting Times: Why size matters

If haredim were a small, marginal minority we could let them retreat to their own neighborhoods.

JANUARY 13, 2012
Haredi family 521

Guest Columnist: A few words on the prophet motive

Like other revolutionaries Islamists have too much confidence in the inevitability of their vision but no more than dreamy ideas about what it is.

DECEMBER 30, 2011
Tahrir Square, Cairo, daytime_311

Guest Columnist: The debt years of our lives

There is one critical difference between the financial crises of 2011 and 2008: Today, the very policies that had enabled the Israeli economy to weather the storm are under attack.

NOVEMBER 25, 2011
Social protests yelling 521

Guest Columnist: Nobel intentions

Israel is being pulled up by a tiny class of the most intelligent and resourceful, not because of the educational system but in spite of it.

NOVEMBER 11, 2011
Nobel Prize Laureate Dan Shechtman 311 (R)

Israeli exceptionalism

Israeli exceptionalism is borne of self-criticism and a sense that history has dealt unkindly with us.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
Alexis de Tocqueville 521

Tears for Oslo?

Oslo died its death, but Israel should do whatever it can to ensure its spirit lives on.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
Oslo 521

Guest columnist: In tents and purposes

The Israeli economic miracle of the last two decades has bypassed a large part of the population. That cannot continue.

AUGUST 26, 2011
Protesters sit outside tents in Tel Aviv 521 (R)

Never on Sunday

Silvan Shalom's plan creates a work week that's an ungainly mixture of days too long and too short.

JULY 22, 2011
matcot beach 521