Yosef Tekoah, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, met today with Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and transmitted to him an appeal signed by more than 500 Soviet Jews calling for United Nations action against the repressive measure of an extortionist ransom tax imposed on all Jews with academic education who desire to unite with their families and their people in Israel. The appeal was addressed to Waldheim and to Heads of Delegations to the 27th session of the General Assembly. It was signed by Jews from various parts of the Soviet Union.
Tekoah also drew Waldheim’s attention to the intensification of harassment and oppression of Soviet Jews by the Soviet authorities and in particular to the arrest this week of 30 Moscow Jews. He also transmitted to the Secretary General 36 letters on behalf of approximately 700 Soviet Jews who are pleading for assistance in their efforts to exercise their fundamental human right to join their families in Israel.
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