Refusenik authorities to significantly increase the emigration quota. In the years 1960 through 1970, only about 3,000 Soviet Jews had (legally) emigrated from the USSR; after the trial, in the period from 1971 to 1980 347,100 people received a visa to leave the USSR, 245,951 of them were Jews. Refuseniks included Jews who desired to emigrate on religious grounds, Jews seeking to immigrate to Israel for Zionist aspirations, and relatively secular Jews desiring to escape continuous state-sponsored antisemitism. A leading proponent and spokesman for the refusenik rights during the mid-1970s was Natan Sharansky. Sharansky's involvement with the Moscow Helsinki Group helped
Natan Bernot to provide new insight and guidance for policies in the relevant areas. ICF Olympic Games + World Championships,The Medal Winners, p. 41. retrieved 2014-02-13 Natan Bernot Natan Bernot (died 22 August 2018) was a Slovenian mechanical engineer, energy engineering and energy development specialist and a former Yugoslav slalom canoeist from Slovenia who competed from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s. With his brother Dare, he won a silver medal in the C-2 event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Spittal. In his professional work Natan Bernot favoured a complex approach to the world's energy issues. A new