A group of Knesset members, headed by Likud’s Geula Cohen, yesterday wrote Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn inviting the exiled Russian writer to visit Israel. The letter sent to the Nobel Prize winner’s home in Switzerland hailed Solzhenitsyn as a supporter of Israel and Zionism as well as human rights for the Russian people. It assured him that he would be welcomed by academics, writers and above all ordinary Israelis. Mikhail Agursky. a Soviet immigrant writer who was close to Solzhenitsyn in the Soviet Union, advised the MKs on the text of the invitation.
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