Menu JTA Search  Tsukerman, Jewish Activist, Leaves Soviet Union
for Israel Settlement  Boris Tsukerman, a prominent Soviet
Jewish activist, arrived here last night from Moscow on his way
to Israel with his Christian wife and their children,
Constantin, 16 and Annia, nine, The family was met at the
airport by local representatives of the Jewish Agency. The
Tsukermans left Moscow yesterday on an Aeroflot plane. About 50
Jews gathered at the airport to see them off. They departed just
three days after receiving an exit visa promised them by Soviet
authorities two weeks ago. Tsukerman, 32, a physicist, was one
of a group of dissenters working under Prof. Andrei Sakharov. He
was also a legal expert. Jewish sources said he had become a
source of embarrassment to Soviet authorities because he was
continually challenging repressive edicts in the Soviet courts
and was advising other Jews and dissidents on effective ways of
dealing with the authorities. He had been employed at a
scientific institute in Moscow. His hom