There are still some 2,000 Jews living in Soviet Estonia, Yeshoua Oko, 73, former president of a synagogue in Tallin, capital city of Estonia, reported here. He was one of a party of 22 immigrants from various Eastern European countries to arrive in Israel today.
Mrs. Riva Zanotzkaya, 65, another of the immigrants, who came from Kovno, Lithuania, said that the Soviet authorities had promised to continue her pension payments in Israel. The pension was awarded her upon the death in action of her son, who was a Soviet Army officer during the late war.
The immigrants included: nine from Russia, eight from Rumania, two from Latvia, and one each from Estonia, Lithuania and Poland.
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