Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky
נתן שרנסקי‎
Sharansky in 2019
Ministerial roles
1996–1999	Minister of Industry and Trade
1999–2000	Minister of Internal Affairs
2001–2003	Deputy Prime Minister
2001–2003	Minister of Housing & Construction
2003–2005	Minister of Jerusalem Affairs
Faction represented in the Knesset
1996–2003	Yisrael BaAliyah
2006	Likud
Personal details
Born	Anatoly Borisovich Scharansky (1948-01-20) 20 January 1948 (age 76) Stalino, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Israeli
Spouse	Avital Stieglitz ​ (m. 1974)​
Children	2
Alma mater	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (BMath)

Natan Sharansky^{[Note 1]} (Hebrew: נתן שרנסקי; Russian: Натан Щаранский; Ukrainian: Натан Щаранський; 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,^[1] 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.

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