President Yitzhak Navon was asked in an appeal from 13 Jewish scholars in Moscow today, to mobilize world support for themselves and several hundred of their colleagues who want to immigrate to Israel but have been denied exit visas by the Soviet authorities.
A letter sent to Navon said that 40 Jewish professors and more than 300 Jews with Ph.d. degrees had applied to leave the USSR last year. As a result, they were fired from their jobs and were barred from doing research in their fields. “We are being destroyed as scholars and breadwinners,” the letter said.
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