Bone Marrow Donor to Leave for Israel
Soviet Jew Inessa Fleurova will leave Moscow on Monday to donate bone marrow to her brother in Israel who has leukemia, relatives said Wednesday.
Fleurova, 37, a sociologist, got permission in August to go to her brother, 30-year-old biochemist Mikhail Shirman, but delayed her departure until her physicist husband Viktor Fleurov, 38, and two daughters could go with her.
The refusal of Fleurov’s father to give signed permission for his son to emigrate delayed the family’s departure, but Soviet authorities earlier this month waived the requirement, routine in emigration cases.
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