Aliya from North America has increased 15 percent this year over the same nine month period last year, Moshe Shechter, director of the Israel Aliyah Center of North America, has announced. Through the month of September, a total of 1,936 people have made aliya. This figure does not include people who decided to make aliya while traveling in Israel, nor returning Israelis, Shechter said. Sixtyeight percent of those making aliya were under 30 years of age, he noted, and the most representative professions were teachers, nurses, secretaries, accountants, and engineers.
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