Speech #1000001816

Of that community. numbering 400.000 after the War. more than 300.000 have left for Israel with the permission of the government. The remaining Romanian Jews function openly as a religious community with the support of the government. We argued to Soviet officials that Soviet Jews. whose applications for permission to emigrate are more than five years old. should immediately be granted permission to emigrate. and that emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel should thereafter be permitted on a regular basis. We pointed out that such a process would have an immediate impact on the entire range of bilateral issues between the two countries. We can only hope that message. delivered so often before. finally will be treated seriously.