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Article: SOVIET JEWS' RESETTLING LIMITED.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 20, 1988
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Byline: Associated Press
The Cabinet said Sunday that it will force Soviet Jews emigrating with Israeli visas to travel directly from the Eastern bloc to the Jewish state to prevent them from settling elsewhere.
A senior U.S. Embassy official said the decision appeared to contradict the U.S. position supporting freedom of travel for Soviet Jews.
Emigration activists said the decision may reduce the influx of Soviet Jews to Israel.
The Cabinet said in a statement that it "decided to act, in the framework of legal means available, that Jews who ask for an exit visa from the Soviet Union in order to come to Israel would indeed reach ...