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Natan Sharansky

1948 -
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movement:  Movement to Free Soviet Jewry
country of citizenship:  Soviet Union, Israel
languages spoken, written or signed:  English, Russian, Hebrew
educated at:  MIPT Department of Control and Applied Mathematics
occupation:  politician, writer, mathematician, human rights defender, chess player
award received:  Presidential Medal of Freedom, Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, Congressional Gold Medal, Israel Prize, Genesis Prize, Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
position held:  Knesset member, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, Minister of Economy, Minister of the Interior of Israel

Natan Sharansky (Hebrew: נתן שרנסקי; Russian: Ната́н Щара́нский; Ukrainian: Натан Щаранський, born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky on 20 January 1948) is a Soviet dissident and later Israeli politician, human rights activist and author who spent nine years in Soviet prisons as a refusenik during the 1970s and 1980s. He served as Chairman of the Executive for the Jewish Agency from June 2009 to August 2018. Sharansky currently serves as chairman for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), an American non-partisan organization. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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