NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS

NEFARIOUS RUSSIANS

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Soviet Jews who fled Israel back to the USSR
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Soviet Jews who fled Israel back to the USSR

"As soon as you find yourself in Israel, you realize that they need you and your family to make it easier to master occupied Arab lands."

Yasha Levine
Feb 15, 2021
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While working on the third installment of my series about the forced Soviet Jewish migration to Israel (you can read parts one and two here), I got tripped up by a cool little side story. It’s about Soviet Jews who wanted to come back — and in some cases actually managed to come back — to the USSR after they had already emigrated to Israel. Why? Seems l…

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