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Father of former Israeli hostage joins Columbia as a Jewish history professor

Columbia appoints Jonathan Dekel-Chen to expand faculty expertise in Israeli and Jewish history amid calls for balanced Middle East perspectives after campus unrest.

Summary by Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of a former Israeli hostage, has been appointed to join Columbia University as a professor of history, with a course load that includes instruction about modern Israel. Dekel-Chen’s son Sagui spent 498 days in captivity in Gaza after he was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz, a kibbutz in southern Israel, on Oct. 7, 2023. Dekel-Chen became a persistent advocate for a ceasefire deal and of Israel’s prosecution of the war i…

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Father of former Israeli hostage joins Columbia as a Jewish history professor

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, whose son Sagui was held by Hamas in Gaza for 498 days, was appointed amid increased pressure on Columbia University to diversify the attitudes of faculty teaching about the Middle East

·Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency broke the news in on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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