Alexander Anatolyevich Yakobson () is an Israeli historian,

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at the

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, political activist, and commentator.

Background

Alexander Anatolyevich Yakobson was born on October 5, 1959, in

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. His parents were Soviet dissidents Anatoly Yakobson and Maya Ulanovskaya. His grandparents were Soviet spies Alexander Ulanovsky 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

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at the University of Cologne.

Career

Academia

In 1995, Yakobson was appointed assistant professor of History at the

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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 member with a regular op-ed column in the newspaper

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. 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 as a

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. He is an Advisory Editor at "

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: For a deeper understanding of Israel and the region".

Works

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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 Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Living people 1959 births {{Israel-historian-stub