I Will Not Fear Evil

Natan Sharansky was born in 1948 in Stalino, now Donetsk, Ukraine. He was a participant in the human rights movement in the USSR and one of the leaders in the struggle for the right of Soviet Jews to repatriate to Israel. In 1976, Sharansky became one of the founders of the group for monitoring the Helsinki Agreements, which tracked violations of these agreements, including those against various religious and national groups in the Soviet Union. In 1977, he was arrested on charges of treason and espionage. After nine years of imprisonment, he was released on February 11, 1986.

1996–2005 — minister and deputy prime minister of four Israeli governments.