Index?s Saul Klein, After A Year Abroad, Returns To London To Launch New UK Israel Tech Council

For the last year or so, Index Ventures' Saul Klein has been living in Israel, not soaking up the hot sun (well, maybe a little of that) but the local startup scene -- the "Silicon Valley for the rest of the world," as he calls it. Now he is gearing up to move back to London, and at the same he is taking part in a new initiative to continue building those bridges: the UK Israel Tech Council. The group, associated with a new UK-Israel Technologies Hub based at the UK Embassy in the country, sounds like the kind of high-level effort that sits fairly far above the workings of startup life: some 35 "top business leaders and officials from both countries to develop an ambitious strategy for creating the UK/Israel tech partnership," the group says. They include the British Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould; non-executive chairman of the UK-Israel Technologies Hub Haim Shani; Yossi Vardi; and senior executives from Virgin Media, Google, Alcatel Lucent, Amadeus Capital, NICE Systems, Pitango Venture Capital and Index, among others. But at the same time, it is a signal of how some significant efforts are being invested to tap further into the evolving startup culture in the country, and to make sure there is mindshare at all levels concerning that.

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