Yuval Noah Harari
Historian, philosopher and author
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and philosopher who has written bestselling books on the past and future of humankind.
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Israeli Born 1976 in Kiryat Ata, Israel
About Yuval Noah Harari
Harari was born in Israel in 1976 and earned a doctorate in history at the University of Oxford. He has taught history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge. Sapiens grew out of lectures he gave to an undergraduate world history class. He has also written Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and Nexus. Among the subjects his writing examines are free will, consciousness, happiness and suffering, along with the part that storytelling has played in how humans evolved. With his husband, Itzik Yahav, he co-founded Sapienship, a social impact company working in education and storytelling.