Ilya Glazer, a famous brain surgeon who spent six years in Soviet prisons and in exile in Siberia after applying for an emigration permit, arrived in Israel last night with his wife and daughter. He was greeted at Ben Gurion Airport by his mother who came to Israel several years ago.
“This is a dream come true,” he told reporters in Hebrew, a language he learned, he said, by listening to Kol Israel radio broadcasts during his exile. Glazer, dismissed from his academic chair at Moscow University after he applied for a visa, has been appointed to the faculty of Ben Gurion University in Beersheba.
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