Yuval Kharari

Yuval Noah Harari is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, which has been translated into 30 languages.

From 1993 to 1998, he studied for his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in medieval history and military history. He received his doctorate in 2002 from Jesus College, Oxford. From 2003 to 2005, he held a postdoctoral position, conducting research with funding from the Yad Hanadiv charitable Rothschild Foundation in Israel.

Harari’s current interests lie in world history and macrohistorical processes. His research includes attempts to answer the following questions: How are history and biology interconnected? What is the fundamental difference between Homo sapiens and other animals? Is there such a thing as historical justice? Is history moving in a certain direction? Are people becoming happier compared with their predecessors?

Yuval Harari has published numerous articles and books, including Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100–1550; The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450–2000; The Concept of ‘Decisive Battles’ in World History; and Armchairs, Coffee and Authority: Eye-witnesses and Flesh-witnesses Speak about War, 1100-2000. His best-known book is Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, which examines the entire history of humankind, from the evolution of Homo sapiens in the Stone Age to attempts to predict the existence of 21st-century civilization.

The first edition of this book attracted the attention not only of academic circles, but also of the general public. Harari achieved even greater popularity by posting his lectures on YouTube. They were watched by tens of thousands of Israelis. Worldwide fame came after a free online course on Coursera, which was joined by more than 100,000 people.

In 2012, he was elected to the Young Israeli Academy of Sciences. In 2015, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, selected Harari’s bestseller as part