https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/07/30/june-jacobs-campaigner-soviet-jews-obituary/
June Jacobs
June Jacobs, who has died aged 88, was a leading figure in Britain’s Jewish community and a doughty campaigner for “Refuseniks” in the Soviet Union, for women’s rights and for peace in the Middle East.
She became involved in the Refusenik issue – that of Jewish people prevented from emigrating to Israel by the Soviet authorities – when she worked for a Jewish children’s charity, and she first came to public attention in September 1971 when, as chairman of the Jewish Women’s Association, she staged a 24-hour fast outside the Soviet embassy in London.
This was to draw attention to the plight of a Jewish woman who had fallen ill while serving a 10-year sentence in a labour camp for allegedly trying to hijack a Soviet aircraft.
