[RBS] YOSEF MENDELEVITCH - Inspiring lecture - Refusenik, Prisoner of Zion

[Ari Gerber]

You're invited to an inspiring evening with 
YOSEF MENDELEVITCH Prisoner of Zion and author of Unbroken Spirit.
 
Yoseph Mendelevitch was one of the participants of the
Dymshits-Kuznetsov hijacking affair (an attempted hijacking by a group of
Refuseniks in order to escape Soviet Russia).
 
As punishment, he was sentenced to 12 years in forced labor camps.
He served in the Gulag with famous Jewish dissident, Natan Sharansky.
In 1981 he was released and immigrated to Israel.
Yoseph Mendelevitch will be speaking about:
His experiences in Russia's prisons and their connection to Teshuva
His struggle on behalf of himself and others for the freedom to be
allowed to live as a Jew in Israel. 
 
Thursday, September 20, 8:45pm
Beit Knesset Netzach Menashe  
Frieda Lerner Hall 16 Reuven, Givat Sharret, Beit Shemesh 
LECTURE is in HEBREW.
Entrance is FREE. 
The book, Unbroken Spirit, will be sold at a discount price at the
lecture.