He learned to read by himself at the age of three. From the age of eight, he studied in a class opened for intellectually gifted children.
Yuval Noah Harari, known for his books that made a great impression around the world, was born on February 24, 1976. He is one of three children of Shlomo and Pnina Harari, Jewish of Eastern European and Lebanese descent. His birthplace is the city of Kiryat Ata in Haifa. His father is a weapons engineer working in the public sector, and his mother is an office manager.
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976) is an Israeli public intellectual, historian and professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the popular science bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014), Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016), and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018). His writings examine free will, consciousness, intelligence, happiness, and suffering.
Harari learned to read by himself at the age of three. From the age of eight, he studied in a classroom for intellectually gifted children at the Leo Beck Educational Center in Haifa. He postponed his compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces for a university education. At the age of 17, he studied history and international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. After his education, he was exempted from military service due to health problems.
He completed his doctorate in history from Oxford University in 2002. prof. Yuval Noah Harari later taught world history at the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specialized in World History, Medieval History, and Military History. He now focuses on his research on macro-historical questions.
Harari also teaches a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) A Brief History of Humanity. Over 80,000 students from all over the world attend this course in the first half of 2013. The second study starts in August 2014 and 30,000 students participate in its first three weeks.
Yuval Noah Harari suddenly turns into a world-renowned author with his book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, published in 2011. Harari's book, in which he looks at the adventure of human history, consists of four chapters with the main titles.
Harari's book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, published in 2015, has also been translated into dozens of languages. Describing how the human species dominated the world with Sapiens, Harari this time goes to the future with his critical style.
Harari tells us about today with his third book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, published in 2018. The cause of the political, religious, economic, health, psychological, ecological, and similar social crises that all people in the world are currently experiencing, and the positive and negative effects of biotechnology, artificial intelligence, information technology, and free economy market that surround the world, in detail and in the future. writes it down.
Harari says that Vipassana meditation, which he started in Oxford in 2000, changed his life. Harari, who meditates for 2 hours each day, one hour at the beginning and at the end of the working day, also takes a meditation retreat of 30 days or more each year without books or social media.
As of January 2019, Harari stops using smartphones.
Harari is also vegan.
Harari, who does not hide that he is gay, meets his wife Itzik Yahav, whom he calls "my everything" in 2002. Yahav is also Harari's personal manager. They get married in a formal ceremony in Toronto, Canada. The couple lives in a Moshav (a type of village with a cooperative farming community of individual farms) in Mesilat Zion, near Jerusalem.