Natan Sharansky
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Natan Sharansky is an internationally renowned human rights activist, political leader, and author. He was the founder and former chairman of the Shalem Center's Institute for Strategic Studies as well as a distinguished fellow from 2006-2009. Sharansky's award-winning books, Fear No Evil (1988) and The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror (2004) are critically acclaimed best sellers in Israel and around the world.
From 1996 to 2005, Sharansky served in the Israeli Knesset, and was, successively, Minister of Industry and Trade, Minister of the Interior, Minister of Housing and Construction, and Minister for Jerusalem and for Diaspora Affairs. In May 2005, after resigning from Prime Minister Sharon's government in opposition to the government's disengagement policy, Sharansky joined the Shalem Center as a distinguished fellow. He served as chairman of the Institute for Strategic Studies until its closure in 2009, after which he assumed the position of Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel.
Active from 2006-2009, the Institute for Strategic Studies was dedicated to exploring the regional and global challenges facing Israel and the West including the advancement of freedom and democracy in the Middle East; a re-examination of international law in the light of new forms of warfare and terrorism; the establishment of a credible deterrent against guerilla and terror organizations and the states that sponsor them; planning for the likely impact of political and social change on the future map of the Middle East; the meaning of "stability" in a time of changing strategic realities; the appropriate response to weapons of mass destruction; the question of how Israel's Arab citizens can most effectively integrate into a Jewish state; and the strengthening of Israel's relations with the United States.
Mr. Sharansky and his wife, Avital, reside in Jerusalem with their two daughters.
For more information, please visit NatanSharansky.org.
Bibliography
The Dissident Choice, The Los Angeles Times (November 24, 2008)
Solitary lessons, Haaretz (October 16, 2008)
Can Israel approach peace from the bottom up?, The Jerusalem Post, (October 15, 2008)
There Won't Be 'Peace' Without Democracy, by Natan Sharansky and Bassem Eid, The Wall Street Journal, (August 8, 2008)
The Real Russia Problem, The Washington Post (September 14, 2008)
Bush's Mideast U-Turn, by Bassem Eid and Natan Sharansky, The Wall Street Journal (February 11, 2008)
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