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Sharansky was born into a Jewish family on () 20 January 1948 in the city of Stalino, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Donetsk, Ukraine) in the Soviet Union.. His father, Boris Shcharansky, a journalist from a Zionist background who worked for an industrial journal, [2] died in 1980, before Natan was freed.
Sharansky resigned from the Knesset, and was replaced by Edelstein. However, he remained party chairman, and decided to merge it into Likud (which had won the election with a haul of 38 seats). The merger went through on 10 March 2003, [ 3 ] and Sharansky was appointed Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, whilst Solodkin was re-appointed Deputy ...
The "three Ds" or the "3D test" of antisemitism is a set of criteria formulated in 2003 by Israeli human rights advocate and politician Natan Sharansky in order to distinguish legitimate criticism of Israel from antisemitism.
Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky has been awarded Israel's prestigious 2020 Genesis Prize for a lifetime of work promoting political and religious freedoms, organizers announced Tuesday.
Natan Sharansky, the Russian refusenik, who was sentenced to 13 years in the gulag for seeking an exit visa to Israel and participating in human rights movements. He is still fighting for human rights in Israel and around the world. Masih Alinejad, a journalist, who Iranian agents recently attempted to abduct in a plot thwarted by the FBI.
The ban on Jewish immigration to Israel was lifted in 1971, leading to the 1970s Soviet Union aliyah. The coming to power of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, and his policies of glasnost and perestroika , as well as a desire for better relations with the West, led to major changes, and most refuseniks were allowed to ...
Sharansky (masculine), Sharanskaya (feminine), or Sharanskoye (neuter) may refer to: Natan Sharansky (born 1948), Soviet refusenik during the 1970s and 1980s, Israeli author and politician Sharansky District , a district of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia
In 1948, following the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the Israeli Declaration of Independence sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which resulted in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight from the land that the State of Israel came to control and subsequently led to waves of Jewish immigration from other parts of the Middle East.