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Hungarian Government Lifts Ban on Emigration of Jews; Permits 3,000 to Leave for Israel

January 5, 1950
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Temporarily lifting its total ban on emigration, the Hungarian Government has granted permission to 3,000 Jews, including forty leaders of the dissolved Hungarian Zionist movement, to leave for Israel within the next few months, it was announced today by the Jewish Agency here.

The government action will permit the first departures of Jews from Hungary in more than six months. The bulk of the emigrants will be children whose parents are already in Isreal, or perents seeking to rejoin children now living in the Jewish state. The Zionist leaders given permission to leave will be chosen by a special committee from lists of Zionist officials registered with the Hungarian Minister of the Interior. They will be accompanied by their families.

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