Mr. Speaker. it is my privilege today to once again speak out in support of Gennady Khassin and his family who have been denied the right to immigrate to Israel by the Soviet Government. Gennady Khassin was a prominent mathematician. the author of 4 textbooks and 16 scholarly articles which have been widely published and which are available abroad. until 1976 when he first applied for permission to emigrate to Israel to be reunited with his mother. Since that time he has been formally unemployed and has supported himself through the teaching of Hebrew which the Soviet Government does not consider a profession. This struggle to provide a livelihood for himself and his family has led to his repeated arrest and prosecution for being a "parasite." In addition. earlier this month he attempted to visit members of his family in Odessa and was arrested and imprisoned for being in that city without a residency permit. despite the fact that his was to have been only a brief visit.
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