Israeli political circles today rejected as “utterly unfounded” Moscow Radio’s claim that Israel interest in the condition of the Jews in the Soviet Union amounts to “interference into the internal affairs of the Soviet Union.”
At the same time Israel’s radio, Kol Israel, carried a broadcast pointing out that just as the Soviet Government continues to call upon all Armenians in other countries to return to Soviet Armenia, Israel has the right to call upon all Jews to return to their homeland.
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