Yuval Noah Harari

About Yuval Noah Harari

Historian best known for his New York Times best-selling book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, published in 2014. He gave a keynote lecture in Congress Hall at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2018 regarding the future of humanity.

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli public intellectual, historian and professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the best-selling popular science book Sapiens: A Brief History of Man, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. His writings examine free will, conscience, intelligence, happiness and suffering. Harari writes of the "cognitive revolution" that occurred about 70,000 years ago when Homo sapiens replaced rival Neanderthals and other species of the genus Homo, developed language skills and social constructs, and Leading hunting, aided by the agricultural revolution and accelerated by the scientific method, gives humans access to virtual mastery of their environment.

Nationality	Israeli
Born	February 24, 1976, Kiryat Atta, Israel
Institutions	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Influences	Jared Diamond, Frans de Waal
Fields	History
Known for	', Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Spouse	Itzik Yahav
Thesis	History and I: War and the Relations between History and Personal Identity in Renaissance Military Memoirs, c. 1450–1600 (2002)
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jesus College, Oxford

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Trivia

He won the highly-coveted Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in both 2009 and 2012. His 2014 book Sapiens was shortlisted on the Royal Society of Biologists' 2015 Book Awards. 

Yuval Noah Harari before fame

In 2002, he received his PhD in history from Oxford University. Between 1993 through 1998, he studied medieval and military history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Achievement of Yuval Noah Harari

In 2009 and 2012, he was awarded the Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality. The Royal Society of Biologists' 2015 Book Awards shortlisted his 2014 book Sapiens.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Yuval Noah Harari family life

In 2002, he met his husband, Itzik Yahav.

Associations of Yuval Noah Harari

His 2015 book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind has been a recommended read by Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg.

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