Jewish emigration from Europe in Israel continued at a rapid pace last week when 5,902 men, women and children left Bulgaria and Rumania in a single day for Israel, it was reported this week-end by Moses A. Leavitt, executive vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee.
Leavitt reported that the Israel-bound immigrants left last Wednesday aboard two vessels–the S.S. Bulgaria, which left Varna, Bulgaria, with 4,592 refugees, and the S,S. Galilah, which sailed from Constanza, Rumania, with 1,310.
“With nearly 6,000 persons sailing for Israel in one day, the total number of JDC-assisted immigrants to enter the Holy Land this month is expected to total more than 18,000,” the J.D.C. official added. At the same time, he released the text of a cable received from the Central Committee of Jewish Refugees in Cyprus thanking the J.D.O. for relief and welfare assistance it has provided since the Cyprus internment camps were opened in August, 1946.
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