Mr. Speaker. on November 17. 1969. the Israel Knesset requested that legislative bodies all around the world "employ the full weight of their influence in assisting" Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. In this unprecedented move the Knesset acknowledged that the policy of persuasion and negotiation had failed and that the Soviet Union continued to refuse permission to emigrate to a large portion of its Jewish population. This deplorable situation was spotlighted on November 10. 1969. when Israel submitted to the United Nations a document signed by 18 Jews living in the Soviet Republic of Georgia. The document accused Soviet authorities of preventing them from leaving the Soviet Union.
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