A pilot group of about 3,500 Jews will visit Israel this summer under the auspices of the Jewish Agency’s Aliya Department to see if they want to settle here.
According to Haim Aharon, who heads the department, about 70 percent of the participants in past pilot visits eventually immigrated. The aliya promotion program includes lectures and seminars on Israeli society, tours of the country, meetings with Knesset members and other public figures and discussions of employment and housing opportunities.
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