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Air Borne Migration of Persian Jews to Israel Ends

April 8, 1952
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The airborne migration of Persian Jews to Israel came to an end today with the arrival of 70 immigrants from Teheran. Now that the weather is improving, the immigrants will come directly by ship and overland via Turkey and ship.

A group of 372 immigrants from Rumania arrived here yesterday. They reported that before their ship cleared Constanza, Rumanian police boarded it and took off three emigrants.

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