Itzik Yahav
Itzik (Itzhak) Yahav (born 30th April 1976), is the founder of Sapienship – a social impact company, and the sole agent of Yuval Noah Harari’s works, including the books Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014), Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016), and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018). These books have sold 27 million copies.[1]
Biography[edit]
Yahav was born on 30th April 1976 in Kiryat Ata. His mother, Jeanette Yahav, is an accountant. Itzik Yahav and Yuval Noah Harari met in 2002 in Kirat Ata through an online dating website and got married in Canada in a civil ceremony.[2] Harari has called Yahav “my Internet-of-all-Things”.[3]
Career[edit]
Yahav worked as the Producer of the Acre Theater Center.[4]
In 2011 Yahav published his husband's book Sapiens in Israel through the publishing house of Kinneret Zmora Bitan and became the agent and business partner of Yuval Noah Harari. He hired Deborah Harris Agency to help publish Sapiens around the world and became the sole agent for all the future books related to Yuval Noah Harari.[5] In 2019 he co-founded a social impact company called Sapienship with Harari, with the mission of clarifying the global conversation, focusing attention on the most important challenges and supporting the quest for solutions.[6] The company employs 12 staff.
Philanthropy[edit]
In 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic Yahav and his husband with their company Sapienship donated 1 million USD to the solidarity fund of the World Health Organization.[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Yuval Noah Harari Official Website". Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ↑ Parker, Ian (10 February 2020). "Yuval Noah Harari Gives the Really Big Picture" – via The New Yorker.
- ↑ Adams, Tim (27 August 2016). "Yuval Noah Harari: 'We are quickly acquiring powers that were always thought to be divine'" – via The Guardian.
- ↑ "קיצור תולדות השלאגר". Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ↑ Bowles, Nellie (9 November 2018). "Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer". Retrieved 14 July 2020 – via The New York Times.
- ↑ "Yuval Noah Harari Official Website". Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ↑ Reich, Aaron (16 April 2020). "Yuval Noah Harari to donate $1m. to WHO following Trump funding cuts". Retrieved 14 July 2020 – via The Jerusalem Post.
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