Twenty Jewish families in Moscow have received visas to go to Israel, Jewish sources here said today. All the families had applied for emigration in recent months. There were apparently no significant activists among them. Glenn Richter of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, who recently reported that emigration from Moscow had been cut off, suggested that a “major factor” in the decision to let the 20 families go was “sensitivity relating to the impending Nixon visit.”
Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan was back to normal today after the student council voted last night to end the three-week student strike.
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