Russian Jews denied permission to emigrate to Israel are appealing to Soviet authorities for exit permits for their children, according to Boris Tsukerman, a Soviet Jewish scientist who arrived here last week with his wife and two children. The Tsukermans received exit visas for their entire family but this is rarely the case for most applicants, they said in an interview published in the newspaper Yediot Achronot. The new motto of Soviet Jews, therefore, is, “If you don’t let us go, then at least let our children go,” Tsukerman said. He told of a young couple, Wolf and Svetlana Zeitlin, who were denied exist permits because the man held an essential job at a Moscow scientific institute. “They have decided now to open their struggle in the name of their four-year-old daughter, to let her grow up in Israel,” Tsukerman said. “Their struggle is an open one and many are following them,” he added.
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