This remark sparked an increase in the efforts of Jews to leave the Soviet Union and helped initiate international efforts to facilitate. their mass movement from Soviet Russia. In 1967. in response to earlier Soviet Jewry advocacy efforts. Russian authorities allowed some Jewish citizens to leave for family reunification in Israel. Due to the lack of diplomatic relations between Israel and the Soviet Union. most emigres traveled to Vienna where Israeli authorities flew them to Israel. By March 1976. the majority of emigres who left on visas for Israel chose to resettle in the United States and other Western countries. Mr. Speaker.
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