The World : Bolshoi May Visit Israel

The Soviet Union’s Bolshoi Ballet and Red Army Chorus have scheduled performances in Israel in 1989, according to Victor Freilich, a Soviet-born Israeli impresario. He said in Jerusalem that he has signed up the two groups. The performances would be the ballet’s first in Israel and the chorus’ first there in at least 20 years, officials said. A spokesman for a visiting Soviet consular delegation confirmed the plans. However, in Washington, where the Bolshoi is appearing, the deputy director of the ballet’s umbrella organization, Viktor N. Tikhonov, said he knows of no plan for the Bolshoi to perform in Israel.