Wow. Thanks for posting this article.
Sharansky has been one of my heroes since the early days of the Soviet Jewry movement in the early 1970s.
I never understood why his political party failed to get traction in Israel. His analysis is that the Russian immigrants didn't need a party that focussed just on them, but in fact he tried to expand his party to include English-speaking immigrants and others as well.
"I never understood why his political party failed to get traction in Israel. His analysis is that the Russian immigrants didn't need a party that focussed just on them, but in fact he tried to expand his party to include English-speaking immigrants and others as well."
He was wonderful as a freedom fighter, but his Israeli political stances and his attitudes towards economics didn't strike a chord with us. Not to say we don't respect him.