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Avital Sharansky was born on 1950 in Ukraine, is a Soviet-Israeli human rights activist (born 1950). Discover Avital Sharansky's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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His wife is Natan Sharansky (m. 1974)

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1950

Avital Sharansky (born Natalia Stieglitz (Наталія Стігліц, Наталья Штиглиц) in Ukraine, 1950; married name also Shcharansky) is a former activist and public figure in the Soviet Jewry Movement who fought for the release of her husband, Natan Sharansky, from Soviet imprisonment.

1973

Natalia Stieglitz and Nathan Sharansky met in October 1973.

Shortly after meeting, Nathan Sharansky's exit visa was denied, and he became an active refusenik.

Natalia applied for a visa to Israel, and the couple began to discuss marriage.

1974

They married in 1974, one day and a half before Natalia's exit visa expired.

The day after their wedding, Natalia left for Israel while Nathan remained in the Soviet Union.

1975

In the fall of 1975, she made her first trip to the United States and Canada with the help of activists from the Union of Councils.

During this time, she met with members of Congress.

1977

He was imprisoned in 1977 on charges of high treason.

In Israel, Natalia changed her name to Avital and began to campaign for her husband's release.

1978

In 1978, Nathan was sentenced to 13 years of forced labor.

The reaction catapulted the Sharanskys into the spotlight as figures of the Soviet Jewry Movement.

Gal Beckerman writes:

"Shcharansky's trial and conviction unleashed a wave of support. Dozens of petitions were signed. Committees were established on university campuses and in Congress. The thirty-five-thousand-member Association for Computing Machinery cut all ties with the Soviet Union. By the end of 1978, twenty-four hundred American scientists--including thirteen Nobel laureates as well as researchers representing the leading scientific institutions--had joined on to a 'statement of conscience,' pledging to avoid all cooperation with the Soviet Union until Orlov and Shcharansky were freed. Avital's celebrity reached new heights. She found herself in the Rayburn House hearing room on Capitol Hill surrounded by lawmakers climbing over one another to issue the most indignant statements and the angriest proclamations about what should be done in retaliation. [...] Avital had met with Cyrus Vance, the secretary of state, and UN ambassador Andrew Young the day after the verdict was announced, and on July 17, she was ushered into the White House for a half-hour meeting with Walter Mondale, the vice president.

[...] He praised her for her 'courage, dignity and strength' and then referred to Shcharansky's final speech at the trial, saying that it would 'go down in literature as a great statement by an oppressed person.'"

For years after Nathan's sentence, Avital met with government leaders in the United States and around the world.

1979

In 1979, Avital published a book on the couple's struggle: Next Year in Jerusalem.

The struggle of the Sharanskys was picked up particularly in New York.

During Nathan Sharansky's trial, a sign reading "Free Shcharansky" was lit up on Times Square.

Avital's activism on behalf of her husband was aided by many, including Rabbi Avi Weiss, Rabbi Ronald Greenwald, and others.

1986

Nathan Sharansky was released on February 11, 1986, after which Avital stepped away from public life.

The Sharanskys live in Israel, where they raised two daughters, Rachel and Hannah.