Shmuel Rosner () is a Tel Aviv based columnist, editor and think tank fellow. He is currently a Senior Fellow at The Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) in Jerusalem, as well as an analyst for Kan News TV (Israel’s public television). He is the founder and editor of the data-journalism initiativ
themadad.com
the founder and editor of the nonfiction imprint
The Hedgehog and the Fox"
and writer of a weekly column for The Jewish Journal in L.A. and for

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in Israel.

Biography

Rosner was previously a columnist for the International

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(2011-2021); the chief non-fiction editor for Israel’s largest Publishing House, Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir (2009-2021); a columnist for

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(2008-2011); Chief U.S. Correspondent, Head of the News Division and Head of the Features Division for the Israeli daily

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(1996-2008). He wrote for many magazines, including

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, The Jewish Review of Books, and others. Rosner’s published four books: * Shtetl Bagel Baseball, on the Wonderful Dreadful State of American Jews was published in Israel by Keter (Hebrew, 2011) * The Jewish Vote: Obama vs. Romney, A Jewish Voter’s Guide was published in the US (Jewish Journal Books, 2012) * The Jews, 7 Frequently Asked Questions was published by Dvir (2016) * #IsraeliJudaism, Portrait of a Cultural Revolution was published by Dvir (Hebrew, 2018) and JPPI (English, 2019).

Career in Book Editing

Rosner is an editor known for “discovering”

Yuval Noah Harari Yuval Noah Harari ( ; born 1976) is an Israeli medievalist, military historian, public intellectual, and popular science writer. He currently serves as professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His first bestse ...

. Rosner published Harari’s two first books in Hebrew prior to his international success. "I contacted four, five publishers who didn't want it”, Harari said, “the editor Shmuel Rosner was enthusiastic, and said we would go for it. And the rest is history". Rosner published many other successful non-fiction authors in Israel, both local writers and foreign writers whose books he bought for translation, including Micah Goodman ("

Catch 67 ''Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War'' () is a 2017 book by Israeli Jewish philosopher Micah Goodman on Israeli internal conflict over the West Bank occupation. The English-language translation by journalist Eylon L ...

" and all of his other works),

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(" Pumpkinflowers" and others),

Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; alternatively ''Nessim ''or'' Nissim''; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, ...

Daniel Kahneman Daniel Kahneman (; ; March 5, 1934 – March 27, 2024) was an Israeli-American psychologist best known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memor ...

Dan Ariely Dan Ariely (; born April 29, 1967) is an Israeli-American professor and author. He serves as a James B. Duke Professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University. He is the co-founder of several companies implementing insights f ...

, Sean Carol,

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, Einat Natan ("My Everything" and others), Tali Sharot,

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and many more. In 2022 Rosner established a "boutique books and ideas" project named "The Hedgehog and the Fox". Through this initiative, he produces a cultivated podcast and book series that focus of science, history, foreign affairs and philosophy.

Selected articles

Israel's Fair Weather Fans
New York Times, Aug. 7, 2014. * *

Biography

Career in Book Editing

Selected articles

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