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Soviet Union, Israel renew diplomatic ties
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JERUSALEM Israel and the Soviet Union restored diplomatic
relations today after a 24-year rupture.
The announcement came in a joint statement issued here by
Foreign Ministers David Levy of Israel and Boris Pankin of the Soviet
Union.
Israel long had insisted that the Soviet Union would have to
restore ties as a condition of participating in Middle East peace
talks.
Moscow severed ties with Israel after the 1967 Middle East war,
when Israel seized land from the Sovie...
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