Natan Sharansky

Jewish leaders for social change: Nine of history's most influential Jewish activists

From the beginning, the Jewish people have been improving the world and enriching lives at the forefront of virtually every major advance, cause, or social movement in world history. 

BARON EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD on the NIS 500 banknote issued by the Bank of Israel in 1982.
Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, July 6, 2026

Will Israel's 2026 election represent Liberman’s swan song? – opinion

Influencer and political commentator Hasan Piker is introduced during a campaign rally in Wisconsin in August.

Hasan Piker incites millions against Jews, and the silence is deafening - opinion

KIND FOUNDER Dan Lubetzky in conversation with CNN contributor Van Jones at ADL's Never Is Now event at Javits Center on March 03, 2025 in New York City.

Van Jones joins Genesis Prize board, says humanity has ‘special responsibility’ to defend Jews


Zelensky pushes for Israeli weapons in meeting with Jewish community leaders

"If Israel does not give a clear political assessment of the Russian Federation, new phenomena such as the alliance between Russia and Iran will emerge." 

 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a joint news briefing with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (not seen), as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 25, 2022.

Natan Sharansky appointed chair of Combat Antisemitism Movement

Sharansky is possibly best known as a human rights leader, a former Prisoner of Zion and a leader in the struggle for the right of Soviet Jews to immigrate to Israel.

 Sharansky and CEO Roytman Dratwa presenting an award to former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo for combating Antisemitism.

Sharansky: West’s weakness let Russia control Syria’s skies

Former Jewish Agency head Sharansky said that Putin launched a war against Ukraine in a bid to “restore the Russian Empire.”

 NATAN SHARANSKY in 2011.

Anti-Zionism in academia: An illuminating debate - comment

I wondered how to explain that on May 22, 2021, when many Israelis huddled in shelters against Hamas rockets, members of this scholarly association signed a harsh anti-Israel petition.

 THE WRITER addresses Monday’s conference.

The Ukrainian crisis according to Natan Sharasnky

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Natan Sharansky is a Ukrainian native who spent his formative years in Russian prisons.

 NATAN SHARANSKY: The irony is that Putin said the Ukrainians are not a nation, but now probably he has done more than anyone in history to give them a sense of being a nation.

Sharansky: It's a pity the Jewish Agency can't pick a chairperson

Natan Sharansky says that the Israeli politicians have been abusing the role of chairman of the Jewish Agency and treating it only as an opportunity to offer a job to fellow politicians

 NATAN SHARANSKY in 2011.

Sharansky urges Oberlin College to fire alleged Iran ‘war criminal’

"Mahallati was aware that the Iranian regime was massacring thousands of innocent political prisoners and covered up the facts of the massacre."

Mohammad Jafar Mahallati at TEDxTehran.

What was the Soviet Jewish exodus like? One woman's story told in new book

The stories of the American and Israeli efforts to break the hold on Soviet Jewry are told in a new book.

 Natan Sharansky addresses the book launch of ‘Hidden Heroes’ in Jerusalem on August 31 as author Pamela Braun Cohen looks on.

One woman’s story of resistance and rescue in the Soviet Union - book review

Hidden Heroes: One Woman’s Story of Resistance and Rescue in The Soviet Union by Pamela Braun Cohen is the story of extraordinary people in America and USSR who refused to be seperated.

Pamela Braun Cohen at her book launch in Jerusalem

Should Bennett reverse Netanyahu's 'Kotel deal'? - editorial

The government under prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu adopted the so-called “Kotel compromise” formulated by then-Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky in early 2016.

A FLAG at the Western Wall is lowered to half-mast as a mark of mourning for the Mount Meron victims, earlier this week.