Natan Sharansky want a glimpse of how I think about foreign policy, read Natan Sharansky's book, "The Case for Democracy". ... For government, particularly – for opinion makers, I would put it on your recommended reading list. It's short and it's good. This guy is a heroic figure, as you know. It's a great book. His book "Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy", is a defense of the value of national and religious identity in building democracy. Sharansky has argued that there can never be peace between Israel and the Palestinians until there is "the building of real democratic institutions
Natan Sharansky from the cabinet in April 2005 to protest plans to withdraw Israeli settlements from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank. He was re-elected to the Knesset in March 2006 as a member of the Likud Party. On 20 November 2006, he resigned from the Knesset. His resignation was meant to allow him to form the right-leaning Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies. The funding came from American billionaire Sheldon Adelson. Since 2007, Sharansky has been Chairman of the Board of Beit Hatefutsot, the Jewish diaspora museum. In June 2009, Sharansky was elected to the Chair of the Executive of the