An 11-man Austrian parliamentary delegation feted at a luncheon in the Knesset heard their country praised for aiding Jewish emigrants from the Soviet Union who pass through Vienna on their way to Israel, Yisrael Yeshayahu, Speaker of the Knesset said the 10-day visit of the Austrian parliamentarians was another contribution to rectifying the last vestiges of the Nazi holocaust.
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