Vitaly Rubin and Vladimir Galatsky ended their hunger strike last night but David Azbel and Ida Nudel continued their action, it was reported today by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. Rubin and Galatsky decided to end their strike after 11 days following an appeal Monday by all the senior professors at Israeli universities and technical schools which urged the hunger strikers, for the sake of their health, to end their action.
According to the SSSJ and the NCSJ the two activists stated that they had made their views known throughout the world by conducting their action which began Feb. 15 in Azbel’s Moscow apartment Ms. Nudel began her hunger strike in her own apartment six days ago. Azbel reportedly responded to the appeal by the Israelis by saying that he felt he must continue the strike action despite the fact that he is extremely weak and can hardly stand up. A number of sympathy hunger strikes have been launched in various cities in the United States and in Europe.
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