Former “Prisoners of Conscience” Lassal Kaminsky, 34, and Lev Yagman, 44, arrived in Israel after spending four years in Soviet labor camps following their convictions in the second Leningrad trial in May 1971. They said that being in Israel was like a dream.
The two men were greeted by their families — Yagman, by his wife and son, Daniel, 12, and daughter Ilana, 8; and Kaminsky by his wife and two daughters, Lyuba, 22 and Meira, 15. Also at Ben Gurion Airport for the moving reunion Friday were representatives of the Prisoners of Zion Organization, the Public Council for Russian Jewry and members of Kibbutz Nir David which had adopted Kaminsky.
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