The number of Soviet Jews leaving the USSR is declining, Rafael Kotlowitz, acting chairman of the World Zionist Organization Executive and head of the immigration and absorption department reported to the Executive. Kotlowitz said the decline began last November, when the Soviet authorities first reduced the number of exit visas they had granted. In the Ukraine. and Moldavia the government issued exit permits only to those Jews who had immediate families in Israel. Some 40 percent of all Jews leaving the USSR used to come from the Ukraine. Their number has shrunk to 20 percent. At the same time, Kotlowitz reported, the dropout rate has also increased to 57 percents.
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