A total of 19,567 Jewish immigrants arrived in Israel during the month of October, making it the largest contingent to reach the Jewish state in any month since January, the government statistical burea reported today.
The bureau added that in the first ten months of this year the number of immigrants who arrived in Israel was 145,041 while the total number of Jews who reached the Jewish state since the proclamation of statehood in May, 1948, is 480,010.
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