A letter received at Ramat David settlement from the wife of Lev Naumovich Yagman, a Leningrad defendant who has been exiled to Siberia, reports that his condition has worsened as a result of previously reported heart attacks. Yagman, a 32-year-old engineer, is serving a five-year prison term that ends June 15, 1975. Ramat David has “adopted” him in line with the recent kibbutz tradition of honoring Jewish political prisoners in the Soviet Union. Mrs. Yagman wrote that she and her two children, aged 4 and 8, are having financial difficulties, but said the mail she gets from the kibbutz give her hope.
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