Isi Leibler, an Australian activist who is credited with being among the first to urge global action for Jews who were prevented from leaving the former Soviet Union died Tuesday in Jerusalem, He was at 86. Leibler was a contributing columnist at Israel Hayom, and was regularly featured on the digital edition's opinion section.
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"Isi was the gold standard of global Jewish leadership," Mark Leibler, Isi's brother, said, according to The Age newspaper reported.
Leibler's nephew Jeremy Leibler, president of Zionist Federation of Australia, told the Jewish News that his uncle had shown how a single person "can indeed change the world."
Leibler was born in Belgium in 1934 and moved to Melbourne as a child. He was a successful businessman, founding the Jetset Tours travel agency in 1965, which grew to become one of the country's largest booking companies.
He is survived by his four children and wife Naomi.
