There were 250 Egyptian Jews among the nearly 1,100 immigrants who arrived in Israel by sea and air today. Seventy-five of the Egyptians arrived by air from Athens and the remainder were aboard the S.S. Jerusalem which docked at Haifa with about 1, 000 men, women and children from a number of countries.
Among the Jerusalem’s passengers were 200 Hungarian Jews and a group of youths from Latin American countries who will spend a year working and studying in Israel. A number of families from Britain also arrived, to take up permanent residence at Kiryat Gat, in the Lachish development area southwest of Jerusalem.
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