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Haaretz
March 25, 2018
Alan Hoffmann, the longstanding director-general of the Jewish Agency, announced on Sunday that he will be stepping down by the end of 2018, meaning the quasi-governmental institution will soon be left leaderless. Natan Sharansky, the chairman of the Jewish Agency, will be ending his nine-year termÃâà...
Canadian Jewish News
March 6, 2018
Natan Sharansky is one of them. As the Jewish Agency prepares to celebrate Sharansky, who served as the chairman of the organization for nine years, on March 7 in New York City, I am inspired to share how he has impacted my life. My parents made aliyah from Leningrad, in the former Soviet Union, andÃâà...
Haaretz
March 4, 2018
About three months before Natan Sharansky is due to step down as chairman of the Jewish Agency, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not yet nominated Sharansky's successor. At a meeting last week with the Jewish Agency board of trustees, the prime minister raised the name of the president of theÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
After all, over the past year, relations between Israel and the Diaspora have reached what is unquestionably an all-time low. But not Natan Sharansky, the outgoing chairman of the Jewish Agency. To hear it from him, this too will pass. And as much as it seems today that Israel and world Jewry can't live withÃâà...