The whereabouts of Victor Yakhout were unknown today after an ambulance pulled up outside his home to take him to a mental hospital and found him gone. Yakhout, one of ten Jewish activists called up for military duty with the Red Army reserves, was examined Friday by a psychiatrist and told that his desire to go to Israel indicated a disturbed mind, Jewish sources in the Soviet Union reported today. According to the sources, the psychiatrist recommended that Yakhout be treated at a hospital for the mentally ill. He flatly refused and was permitted to return to his home and has not been seen since.
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