Some 2,000 immigrants arrived in Israel last month, the London office of the Jewish Agency revealed today. It said that 1,250 of these came from Tunis, Morocco and Algeria, while 500 came from Persia. The Agency reported that 300 Jews are expected to arrive from Yugoslavia in August and that the migration from Bulgaria continues at the rate of 70 to 100 a month.
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