NATAN SHARANSKY
Institute for Strategic Studies
Shalem Center

Natan Sharansky is an internationally renowned human rights activist, political leader, and author. Sharansky's award-winning books, Fear No Evil (1988) and The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror (2004) became 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. Sharansky joined the Shalem Center as a Distinguished Fellow in May 2005. He recently rejoined Shalem, after serving as a member of the 17th Knesset, to head up the Center's new Institute for Strategic Studies.