Avital Sharansky at Oz veGaon this Friday

G-d willing, on this coming Friday, the 17th of Shevat, February 6, at 9:00 in the morning we will meet in Oz veGaon to hear Avital Sharansky speak on “Another story on the way to the redemption of the People of Israel”.

Avital was born Natalya Steiglitz in 1950 in the Ukraine. During the early years of the 70s Natalya wanted to immigrate to the Land of Israel to follow her brother, but her parents did not allow her.

In the autumn of 1973 during the Yom Kippur War, she met Anatoly Sharansky at a demonstration near the synagogue in Moscow and joined the ranks of the Refuseniks.
On the 4th of July, 1974, they married. Only Avital ascertained a visa to leave Russia for Israel. She had to leave within 24 hours. Natalya settled in Jerusalem, and changed her name to Avital.
During the 9 years that her husband was in exile in Siberia, Avital was actively working for his release. She met with world leaders, diplomats, politicians, spoke all over the world in front of Jewish audiences, in the US Congress, in Europe, in the UN and in Geneva. Anatoly’s mother, Ida Milgrom, managed the campaign from the Soviet Union.
Natan Sharansky was released in 1986. Avital waited for him in West Berlin and the two of them flew together to the Land of Israel where thousands were waiting for them at the airport.
Avital and Natan live in Jerusalem. Avital is a lecturer for immigrants from the Soviet Union and also tells her story to the youth of Israel. Avital’s story is one of the heroic stories of the People of Israel in this generation, a story of longing for the Land of Israel, of her desire for Jewish identity. One woman against a huge superpower. Thanks to her strong determination, she succeeded to free her husband, who is also an activist for freedom. The two of them together symbolize, more than anything, the People of Israel’s spirit of freedom.
We will all come to hear her. The lecture will be in Hebrew with simultaneous translation to English.
Transportation is provided according to pre-registration:
From Jerusalem: Renee Margolis 052-3294194
From Kiryat Arba-Hevron: Rivka Rybak 054-8034853
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
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