Alexander Anatolyevich Yakobson ( he, אלכסנדר יעקובסון) is an Israeli historian,
professor
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of
Ancient history
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at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
political activist
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, and
commentator.
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Background
Alexander Anatolyevich Yakobson was born on October 5, 1959, in
Moscow
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. His parents were Soviet dissidents
Anatoly Yakobson and
Maya Ulanovskaya. His grandparents were Soviet spies
Alexander Ulanovsky
Alexander Ulanovsky (1891–1970) was the chief illegal "rezident" for Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU), who was rezident in the United States 1931–1932 with his wife and was imprisoned in the 1950s with his family in the Soviet gulag.
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and
Nadezhda Ulanovskaya. Yakobson immigrated to Israel with his family (mother, father, and grandmother) at age 13. He earned his degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: BA cum laude in History and Political Science (1985), MA in History (1989), and doctorate in Ancient History (1995). He also conducted
postdoctoral research
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at the
University of Cologne
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Career
Academia
In 1995, Yakobson was appointed assistant professor of History at the University of Haifa
The University of Haifa ( he, אוניברסיטת חיפה Arabic: جامعة حيفا) is a university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation in 1972, becoming ...
through 1997. In 2000, he was appointed as a senior lecturer in history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2011, he was appointed associate professor of Ancient history at the Hebrew University.
Political activism
Yakobson is a former Meretz activist and Peace Now
Peace Now ( he, שלום עכשיו ''Shalom Achshav'', ) is a non-governmental organization, liberal advocacy and activist group in Israel with the aim of promoting a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Objectives/position ...
member with a regular op-ed column in the newspaper Haaretz. He is a supporter of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He co-wrote ''Israel and the Family of Nations: The Jewish Nation State and Human Rights'' with former Israeli minister Amnon Rubinstein, which seeks to assert Israel's right to exist
The right to exist is said to be an attribute of nations. According to an essay by the 19th-century French philosopher Ernest Renan, a state has the right to exist when individuals are willing to sacrifice their own interests for the communit ...
as a Jewish state
In world politics, Jewish state is a characterization of Israel as the nation-state and sovereign homeland of the Jewish people.
Modern Israel came into existence on 14 May 1948 as a polity to serve as the homeland for the Jewish people. ...
.
He is an Advisory Editor at " Fathom: For a deeper understanding of Israel and the region".
Works
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See also
* Anatoly Yakobson
* Maya Ulanovskaya
* Nadezhda Ulanovskaya
* Alexander Ulanovsky
Alexander Ulanovsky (1891–1970) was the chief illegal "rezident" for Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU), who was rezident in the United States 1931–1932 with his wife and was imprisoned in the 1950s with his family in the Soviet gulag.
Earl ...
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What does Israel's Arab minority really think?
Alexander Yakobson
Fathom: For a deeper understanding of Israel and the region
26 April 2013
Alexander Yakobson's CV at the Hebrew University
Israeli historians
Israeli people of Russian-Jewish descent
Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculty
Living people
1959 births
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