JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some 76 new immigrants from North America arrived in Israel on the eve of Chanukah.
The new immigrants arrived Tuesday morning on a Nefesh B’Nefesh group aliyah flight organized in conjunction with the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption and the Jewish Agency. They will kindle the first Chanukah light in Israel.
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