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Reines Gets Permission to Emigrate

September 21, 1976
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Dr. Leonid Reines, a leading Leningrad activist, has received permission for himself and his family to go to Israel, It was reported-today by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. The family expects to leave by Oct. 8. Reines, 42, a metallurgical researcher, has been seeking a visa for the last three years.

(Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv the widow of Col. Yefim Davidovich, the Red Army hero who died last April of a heart attack in his home in Minsk, arrived this morning with her daughter, Sofia, and her grandson, Alexander. Also arriving in Israel was Mark Abramovich, a former leading Soviet activist.)

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