Google co-founder Sergey Brin says that anti-Semitism forced his family to emigrate to the United States in 1979 when he was a child.

In an interview with the Israeli financial publication, TheMarker.com, Brin described the job discrimination which both his parents encountered in the Soviet academic field.

Brin was in Israel to visit the local Google office as well as take part in a conference organized by Israel’s president, Shimon Peres