The World - News from Feb. 3, 1986
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Soviet Jewish mathematician Yasha Gorodetski and his family arrived in Israel after a six-year struggle to leave the Soviet Union. Gorodetski said he did not know why he had suddenly been allowed out, or if his departure signaled a change in the Kremlin’s policy toward Jewish emigration. He said he first applied for an exit visa in 1980.
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