He has been granted the credentials of rabbi both from the chief rabbi of Israel and the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom. He has an honorary rabbinical degree from the Yeshiva University in New York. It became apparent to Rabbi Branover that he could not continue to be a successful scientist in the Soviet Union and also a deeply religious person. He. therefore. left his work at the Academy of Science in Riga in April of 1971. Several months later. he appealed for permission to emigrate to Israel. His wife. Fania Branover. a medical doctor. was immediately fired from her job.
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