 Several years later, in 1987, he received permission from the Soviet government to leave the USSR and studied in Chabad yeshivas in Israel.He was appointed head of "Beit Chabad for Russian Jews" in Israel during the Russian aliyah of 1991, helping Russian-Jewish immigrants adjust to Israel life in Israel and reconnect to Judaism.Rabbi Azman was also charged with bringing Ukrainian-Jewish children of Chernobyl to Israel and overseeing their medical and psychological rehabilitation.