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Video: Sharansky gives Jewish Agency award to Michael Sherbourne

December 24, 2013 17:56

Daniel Easterman

1 min read

In one of the conference’s most moving moments so far, Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the Jewish Agency awarded 96 year old Michael Sherbourne with a special plaque for his activism on behalf of Soviet Jews during the 1970s and 1980s.

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