— Hannah Elinson, a 64-year-old retired engineer and a founder of the Moscow Women’s Group of refuseniks, has been given permission, along with her husband Saul Gorelik, to rejoin their two sons in Israel. The couple have been denied exit for five years. The information was obtained by phone from Moscow by the Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry.
Meanwhile, according to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, activists in the USSR are reporting a vastly increased number of Jews both refused exit visas and waiting for over a year for answers to their emigration applications. The activists said they knew of 20,000 such Jews in Moscow alone, 10,000 in Leningrad, 7,000 in Kiev, nearly 4,000 in Odessa and 3,000 in Kharkov.
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