Boris Levitas, the only member of the Levitas family that was not allowed to leave for Israel, has been called up for army duty beginning Tuesday, the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry reported Monday. Levitas, who resides in Kiev, applied for an exit visa some time ago. His family left for Israel at the beginning of the year.
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