The World - News from July 27, 1988
A five-man team of Israeli diplomats left for Moscow on a trip described by a Foreign Ministry official as a “major event.” Yeshayahu Anug, deputy director of the Foreign Ministry, said the delegation’s immediate purpose is to help process Israeli visas, both for Soviet Jews wishing to emigrate and those seeking to visit. The delegates traveled first to The Hague, where they are to pick up two-month Soviet visas before leaving Thursday for Moscow. The delegates plan to join in Sabbath prayers at Moscow’s main synagogue Friday night, but there are no plans for political talks with Soviet officials. Moscow severed ties with Israel after the 1967 Middle East War.
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