A total of 9,220 immigrants arrived in Israel during the first nine months of 1988, about the same in the corresponding period of 1987, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported Monday.
Emigrants from the Soviet Union numbered 1,570, a slight increase over the previous year. But a 43 percent rise was reported in emigration from Argentina.
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