Yakov (Yasha) Kedmi

Yakov Yasha Kedmi was born in 1947 in Moscow as Yasha Kazkov. At the age of 19 he burst into the Israeli consulate in Moscow and began a public battle to help Jews from the Soviet Union move to Israel. After two years he managed to move to Israel alone and eventually become the head of Nativ - responsible for the Aliyah of East European Jews.