A total of 130 Brazilian Jews emigrated to Israel, for permanent settlement there, during the first six months of this year, according to figures released here today by the emigration department of the Zionist Organization of Brazil. The six-month figure for this year is almost as high as the number of Brazilian Jews who went to Israel in 1961,when the 12-month total stood at 129.
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