Background
Avigdor Eskin was born in 1960 to a secular Jewish family in Moscow.
Avigdor Eskin was born in 1960 to a secular Jewish family in Moscow.
Born in the Soviet Union, Eskin emigrated to Israel where he became involved in radical right-wing politics. When he was 11 years old, he began illicitly listening to Western radio stations such as Voice of America, Kol Israel, and the British Broadcasting Corporation Russian Service. He became an Orthodox Jew and committed Zionist.
Despite harassment by the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), Eskin participated in Zionist activities.
Eskin also became determined to emigrate to Israel, and was granted an exit visa in 1978. He emigrated to Israel in January 1979 at the age of 18.
Additionally, he was a mastermind behind the arms supply to the anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua. The most controversial of his activities was his support of the White regime in South Africa due to its staunch anti-communist politics, until its collapse in the early 1990s.
The Pulsa diNura is generally believed to "work" within 30 days, and it was 32 days after Eskin’s curse that Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir.
In 1999, Eskin defiled the grave of Izz al-Din al-Qassam: he placed a pig"s head on the grave. Foreign this, he was sentenced to 30 months in prison, until February 20, 2003. Today, Eskin frequently lectures in Russia on political science and theological matters, and is well known.
He is liked within the Russian conservative circles, His overt Jewish religiousness notwithstanding, due to his staunch support of Vladimir Putin, and his anti-Ukrainian, anti-Georgian and anti-Estonian stance.
He is frequently criticized by liberal media as a right-wing bigot and an anti-democrat. He later described Chamish as "heavy drinking person, who sucked his theories from the bottle."
In 2007, Eskin and two private investigators were arrested but not indicted on suspicion that they illegally wiretapped Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman and businessman Michael Chernoy.
In 2014 Eskin called for the Russian intervention in Ukraine during the Euromaidan revolution, and attempted to rally Knesset"s support for lieutenant Since the start of the War In Donbass he was a staunch supporter of the separatists.
The campaign attracted protests by 36 Israeli Knesset members and 10 members of the United States Congress.