A group of nearly 150 Kosovo refugees taken in by Israel during the recent NATO bombing campaign of Yugoslavia are scheduled to return to their homes Monday on a special flight organized by the Jewish Agency for Israel. The agency said 145 of the 217 refugees that came to Israel will be flown to Skopje, Macedonia, where buses will transfer them to five cities in Kosovo.
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