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Article: ISRAEL ACTS TO STOP SOVIET JEWS FROM SETTLING ELSEWHERE

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June 20, 1988
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JERUSALEM - The Cabinet said yesterday 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 US Embassy official said the decision appeared to contradict the US 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, so that Jews who ask for an exit visa from the Soviet Union in order to come to Israel would indeed reach Israel directly."

Israeli officials say the decision is aimed ...

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