Sharansky

American  

[shuh-ran-skee, shchuh-rahn-skyee] / ʃəˈræn ski, ʃtʃʌˈrɑn skyi /

noun

1. Natan Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky, born 1948, Israeli politician and human-rights activist, born in Soviet Ukraine.

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Example Sentences

Dermer got his career in Israel started by analyzing polls for Natan Sharansky, a Soviet dissident who founded a political party in Israel in the 1990s.

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Sharansky, who later wrote a book with Dermer, introduced the young man working for him to Netanyahu in 1999.

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Netanyahu seemed irritated after the first meeting, calling Dermer too negative, Sharansky said.

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But Sharansky advised the prime minister to listen to Dermer and they met a second time.

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“Bibi became very close to him and depended on his thinking and logic and gave him a lot of responsibilities,” Sharansky said.

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