Natan Sharansky 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.
Sharansky in 2019
Sharansky's wife Avital at the Sharansky tribunal in Amsterdam, 12 May 1980
Anatoly Sharansky meeting then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres after his release from the Soviet Union
Sharansky and President Ronald Reagan, December 1986
The Jewish Agency for Israel, formerly known as the Jewish Agency for Palestine, is the largest Jewish non-profit organization in the world. It was established in 1929 as the operative branch of the World Zionist Organization (WZO).
Jewish Agency headquarters, Jerusalem
Jewish immigrants of the Second Aliyah, 1912
Chaim Weizmann, founder and director of the Zionist Commission (a precursor of the Jewish Agency), leader of the Zionist Organization, and first President of the State of Israel
Palestine immigrant certificate issued in Warsaw (16-9-1935) by the Jewish Agency.
