Long term refusnik Eitan Finkelstein arrived in Israel last Friday, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported. Finkelstein, a physicist from Vilnius waited for permission to emigrate to Israel since 1971. He arrived in Israel with his wife Aleksandra and his nine-year-old daughter, Miriam.
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