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Soviet Jewish Activist Ida Nudel Dies at 90

(Jerusalem Post) Steve Linde - Ida Nudel, a Prisoner of Zion who made aliyah to Israel in 1987 after winning her battle against the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 90. Known as the "Guardian Angel" for the campaign she led to provide aid to Prisoners of Zion in Soviet jails, Nudel was the most famous female refusenik. In 1972, she organized a hunger strike at Communist Party headquarters to protest the arrest of another refusenik. After placing a protest poster against the KGB in her apartment in 1978 which read, "KGB, Give Me My Visa," she was banished to Siberia for four years. Nudel received a hero's welcome when she arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport, where she was greeted by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and thousands of others. In Israel she established a nonprofit which provided after-school activities for the children of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. As a human rights activist, in 2005 she petitioned the High Court of Justice to pressure the government to take action on behalf of 15 Palestinian collaborators facing death sentences in Palestinian Authority jails.
2021-09-15 00:00:00
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