Moscow refused to follow through on the AeroflotEl Al agreement to provide direct flights from the U.S.S.R. to Israel. Then. in response to threats from Arab terrorists. Hungary announced that it would no longer honor tickets from Jews emigrating through Budapest. The Post stated thatBudapest became the largest single transit point early this year for the large and controversial wave of Soviet immigration to Israel ... Israeli press reports have said about 65 percent of the immigrants from the Soviet Union were traveling to the country through Budapest. Understandably. the loss of Budapest as a transit point caused alarm throughout the Jewish community. This additional hurdle came at a time when reports from the Soviet Union indicated widespread increases in antiSemitic activity.
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