For the first time in three years, more than 2,000 immigrants have arrived in Israel in a single month — the month of August. The precise figure, issued by the Jewish Agency aliya department, was 2,167. Four-fifths of that number were olim from Western countries — reflecting the continued upward trend in Western aliya.
Aliya figures for the first eight months of the current year show a 28 percent increase over the same period last year. The figure for January-August 1983 is 10,788 olim. Of these,2,578 came from North America — representing a steep rise over the previous year: 40 percent. Similarly, impressive increases were recorded in the number of olim coming in from Latin America and from France.
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