Nathan Sharansky
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Natan Sharansky, February 2016
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| Date of birth | 20 January 1948 |
| Place of birth |
Stalino, Soviet Union (now Donetsk, Ukraine) |
| Knessets | 14, 15, 16, 17 |
| Faction represented in Knesset | |
| 1996–2003 | Yisrael BaAliyah |
| 2006 | Likud |
| 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 |
Natan Sharansky (Hebrew: נתן שרנסקי, Russian: Ната́н Щара́нский, Ukrainian: Натан Щаранський; born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky (Russian: Анато́лий Бори́сович Щара́нский, Ukrainian: Анатолій Борисович Щаранський) 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 has served as Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency since June 2009.
Sharansky was born in Donetsk (then called Stalino), Soviet Union on 20 January 1948 to a Jewish family. He graduated with a degree in applied mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. As a child, he was a chess prodigy. He performed in simultaneous and blindfold displays, usually against adults. At the age of 15, he won the championship in his native Donetsk. When incarcerated in solitary confinement, he claims to have maintained his sanity by playing chess against himself in his mind. Sharansky beat the world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a simultaneous exhibition in Israel in 1996.
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