Immigration to Israel totaled 9,500 in 1986, an 11 percent drop from the previous year according to figures released last week by the Central Bureau of Statistics. The decline was mainly in olim from the Soviet Union and Africa.
Of the 914 Jews reported to have left the USSR last year, only 202 came to Israel. Although 565 Jews arrived from South Africa, more than double the number in 1985, immigration from Africa as a whole fell by 58 percent.
About 2,000 American Jews immigrated to Israel in 1986, only 100 more than in the previous year. About 1,000 immigrants arrived from France, 800 from Argentina, 600 from the United Kingdom and the rest from other European and Latin American countries.
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