After working as a professional journalist and news editor for a leading Israeli daily, he switched to study biochemistry and genetics, with supplements in modern history, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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Over the years he has been a Scholar in Residence at the National Institutes of Health, and a Visiting Professor at Columbia University, the National Institutes of Health, Harvard University, University of Edinburgh, Collège de France, Boston University, and New York University (NYU).