Ilya and Inna Vaitsblit and their son. Evgeny. of Moscow. The Vaitsblits have applied for emigration repeatedly since 1973. The family longs to be reunited with their son. Aleksandr. who is an English teacher at the Weitzmann Institute in Rehovot. Israel. All of the Vaitsblits other relatives perished in the Holocaust. The hardships Ilya Vaitsblit suffers from not being allowed to emigrate is drastically aggravated by chronic physical pain. Since 1966. Ilya has been suffering from multiple sclerosis. He is now half blind. half deaf and confined to his bed with paralyzed legs. The Soviet authorities are well aware of his grave condition because they pronounced him 100 percent disabled in 1974. Yet he is still refused an exit visa on the grounds of state security. This is based on the fact that his previous job as a radio engineer allowed him access to socalled classified material. Clearly. the Vaitsblits case should be considered on a humanitarian basis.
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