I rise today to express my outrage over the treatment of Josif Begun by the Soviet authorities. Unfortunately. his story is altogether too familiar. For over a decade now he has been harassed and he has been imprisoned on at least three occasions for his desire to emigrate to Israel. In 1967. Josif Begun graduated from the Moscow State University and the Moscow Institute of Radiotechnology. Subsequently he was hired as a senior research assistant at the Central Research Institute in Moscow. Begun was fired from his position after submitting his request for an exit visa in April 1971. He then lost several lower level jobs which were not in keeping with his education and experience. Ultimately. he had to rely on a small income from tutoring Hebrew and mathematics.
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