Six hundred Jews–men, women and children–left Egypt’s port of Alexandria yesterday aboard the creaky, old Egyptian vessel, “Mecca,” for Piraeus, Greece, en route to Israel, according to a Cairo dispatch received here today. This latest group brings to 22, 000 the number of Egyptian Jews who have left Egypt for Israel since Egypt’s ruler, Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, started imprisoning Jews, confiscating their property, and expelling them from the country.
The “Mecca” had been chartered by the International Red Cross which, in the last few months, has removed 7, 000 Egyptian Jews to Greece whence they are transported by the Jewish Agency to Israel.
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