Fifty-five new immigrants from the Soviet Union arrived in Israel Monday night, in what was said to have been the largest number in any single flight from Vienna for several years. Among them were pianist Hirsh Feikin and mathematician Pinhas Polansky.
Most of them spoke from good to excellent Hebrew, leading some Soviet Jewry activists to fear that the Soviet authorities were trying to get rid of as many Zionist activists as possible.
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