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Natan Sharansky ( Hebrew : נתן שרנסקי , Russian : Натан Щаранский , born January 20 , 1948 ) is a notable former Soviet anticommunist , Zionist , Israeli politician and writer.¹ From March 2003 until May 2005 , he was a Minister without portfolio , responsible for Jerusalem , social and Jewish diaspora affairs. Previously he served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Israel , Minister of Housing and Construction since March 2001 , Interior Minister of Israel (July 1999 - resigned in July 2000 ), Minister of Industry and Trade ( 1996 - 1999 ). He resigned from the cabinet in April 2005 to protest plans to withdraw Israeli settlers from the contested Gaza Strip .²

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Natan Sharansky ( , , Russian: Натан Щаранский , born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky ( , Russian: Анатолий Борисович Щаранский ) on 20 January 1948) is a former Israeli politician, Soviet refusenik and prisoner, human rights advocate, and author. From March 2003-May 2005, he was Israel's Minister without portfolio , responsible for Jerusalem , social and Jewish diaspora affairs. Previously he served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Israel , Minister of Housing and Construction since March 2001, Interior Minister of Israel (July 1999 - resigned in July 2000), Minister of Industry and Trade (1996–1999). He resigned from the cabinet in April 2005 to protest plans to withdraw Israeli settlements from the Gaza Strip. He was re-elected to the Knesset in March 2006 as a member of the Likud Party. On November 20, 2006, he resigned from the Knesset to form the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies . Sharansky is the founder and former chairman of the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center . Since 2007, Sharansky has been Chairman of the Board of Beit Hatefutsot , the Jewish diaspora museum, and since June 2009 is the chairman of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel .

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member of the Knesset Natan Sharansky ( ; Russian: Натан Щаранский , Natan Shcharansky; born 20 January 1948) is a Soviet -born Israeli politician, human rights activist and author who spent nine years in Soviet prisons for allegedly spying for the American Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Natan Sharansky has served as Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency since June 2009.

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Refusnik, Israeli politician and human rights activist member of the Knesset Natan Sharansky ( , Russian: Ната́н Щара́нский , ; born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky (Russian: Анато́лий Бори́сович Щара́нский , ) on 20 January 1948) is an Israeli politician, human rights activist and author who, as a refusenik in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s, spent nine years in Soviet prisons. He served as Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency from June 2009 to August 2018.

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Israeli politician and refusenik (b. 1948) Natan Sharansky ( ; Russian: Ната́н Щара́нский ; , 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. Sharansky currently serves as chairman for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), an American non-partisan organization. There are <ref group=Note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ). The Jewish Agency for Israel .

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Israeli politician and refusenik (born 1948) Natan Sharansky ( Hebrew : נתן שרנסקי ; born 20 January 1948) is an Israeli politician, human rights activist, and author. He served as Chairman of the Executive for the Jewish Agency from June 2009 to August 2018, and currently serves as Chairman for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), an American non-partisan organization. A former Soviet dissident , he spent nine years imprisoned as a refusenik during the 1970s and 1980s. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ). The Jewish Agency for Israel .

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