Israel’s trade minister led a symbolic walk outside U.N. headquarters in New York to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Natan Sharansky, who was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union, spent nine years incarcerated there as a “prisoner of Zion.” The founder of Israel’s Yisrael Ba’ Aliyah Party was joined at the event by supporters who had pressured Moscow to release Sharansky. After he was released in 1986, he emigrated to Israel.
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