We next met for an hour with Natan Sharansky. the dissident and former Soviet prisoner turned Israeli Minister of Industry and Trade. Mr. Sharansky. whose immigrant party now holds seven seats in Knesset. said he wanted to accelerate immigration into Israel. but was contending with Israeli housing that. as he put it. took the worst from capitalism and socialism. I told him my father had immigrated from Ukraine to the United States as a boy in 1911. and that I understood the Immigrants position. We agreed that Russian Jews should have a choice where they emigrate. rather than being limited to Israel. We met next with David Levy. the Israeli Foreign Minister. Mr.
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