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In this appeal distributed by the Committee of Concerned Scientists, Raiz requests that members contact Soviet leaders on his behalf. As a result of reforms implemented under Mikhail Gorbachev, Ruiz was eventually allowed to leave the Soviet Union in 1990, when he immigrated to Israel along with 150,000 other Soviet Jews.