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Israel's Prosperous Miracle

T

he Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit will
host a fundraiser for the 2010
Campaign that will feature Dan Senor,
co-author of Start-Up Nation: The Story
of Israel's Economic Miracle.
The event takes place at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 17, at Hillel Day
School in Farmington Hills.
Start-Up Nation is about innovation
and entrepreneurship, and how one small
country, Israel, came to embody both.
With co-author Saul Singer, a columnist
and former editorial page editor at the
Jerusalem Post, Senor explores how a
nation of 7.1 million, surrounded by
enemies and with no natural resources,
came to lead the world in technology,
producing more start-up companies than
large, peaceful nations like Canada, Japan,
China, India and the United Kingdom.
Senor, adjunct senior fellow for Middle
East studies at the Council on Foreign
Relations, has been involved in policy,
politics and business in the Middle East.
"For the global economy to recover
and thrive Senor told the IN, "it is not
enough for individual companies to
cultivate innovation. What is needed is

Spotlighting Child Hunger
U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield
Township, and other guests will par-
ticipate in a Child
Nutrition Seder, a
foodless educational
program on the issue
of hunger, hosted by
the Jewish Community
Relations Council of
Metropolitan Detroit
Rep. Peters
(JCRC) and Yad Ezra,
the kosher food pantry,
on Sunday, March 14. The seder begins at
10 a.m. at Yad Ezra's Berkley warehouse.
Jewish and non-Jewish teens are espe-
cially encouraged to attend. The seder
is designed as an educational program
that makes the issue of hunger personal.
Participants will use a special Haggadah
that explores the realities of hunger, uti-
lizing the seder's traditional structure of
Passover symbols, the Four Questions and
the 10 Plagues. No food will be served.
Each year, 36 million people in the U.S.
do not get enough to eat. Each morning,
12 million children go to school hungry.

"For the global economy
to recover and thrive, it is
not enough for individual
companies to cultivate
innovation." —Dan Senor

for countries to build a comprehensive
culture of innovation that welcomes risk-
takers from all over the world; encourag-
es our people to improvise, to be mission
oriented, question established business
models and institute sensible regulations
and monetary policies that do not create
perverse 'easy money' proxies for growth!'
The world's need innovation and Israel
has it, he added.
"There's no better time to look at the
Israeli model:' Senor said. "The next
phase for Israel's economy is not just
building start-ups, that are quick to exit,
but building self-contained, stand-alone
institutions more in the mold of Teva [a
pharmaceutical and medical products
company]:'
As a senior foreign policy adviser to
the U.S. government, Senor was one of

The Child Nutrition Seder is designed to
express support for re-authorization of the
U.S. Child Nutrition Act, which provides
nutritious food to low-income children.
The Passover Haggadah begins by
beckoning "All who are hungry, come and
eat. All who are in need, come and par-
take in the Paschal offering."
Passover provides the framework for a
discussion on child poverty in Michigan
and across the country. The Child
Nutrition Seder is part of a national effort
launched by the Jewish Council for Public
Affairs and MAZON: A Jewish Response
to Hunger.
There is no cost for the program, but
reservations are required. For informa-
tion, contact the JCRC, (248) 642-5393.
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the longest-serving civilian officials in
Iraq, for which the Pentagon awarded
him its highest civilian honor. He also
served as a Pentagon adviser to Central
Command in Qatar and as a foreign
policy and communications adviser in
the U.S. Senate.
Senor has studied in Israel and at
Harvard Business School. He has traveled
extensively throughout the Arab world.
In his business career, he has invested in
a number of Israeli and American start-
ups; today, he is with a New York-based
global investment fund.
Senor's analytical pieces are frequently
published by the Wall Street Journal. He
has written for the New York Times, the
Washington Post, the Weekly Standard
and Time.
The event is open to all individuals
who have made a minimum gift of $250
to Federation's 2010 Campaign. Pamela
Applebaum and Gaal Karp and Rachel
and Joshua Opperer are event co-chairs.
Reservations are required by March
12:jewishdetroit.org/dansenor. For more
information, contact Julie Zuckerman
Tepperman at (2480 203-1497 or
Zuckerman@jfmd.org.

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