Over 9,000 Jews, including 2,500 children under 14 years of age, have left Poland for Israel since the resumption of Jewish emigration from Poland last October, Israel Barzilai, Israel Minister to Warsaw, who is here on route to Israel, declared today. He added that 12,000 passports have been issued to Israel-bound Jews since October and more are expected so that some 4,500 more Jews will leave this month and next.
Mr. Barzilai, who is returning home to report on the first 20 transports of Jews to leave Poland since last year and to discuss plans for future transports, is also carrying the text of a now trade pact between Israel and Poland. The second Israel-Polish commercial agreement, signed last May, provided for a substantial increase in the shipment of goods from Poland which were needed most in the Jewish state and a reduction in the proportion of goods not needed as desperately.
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