One hundred and sixty new immigrants from 15 countries disembarked here yesterday from the Israeli motorship Dan, among them a non-Jewish retired United States Army officer and his Jewish wife who plan to settle in Israel. Jack Hacket, 42, already has a job with Israel Aircraft Industries as a construction engineer. He served the U.S. Army for 24 years and was most recently posted at a base in West Germany where he was chief instructor in demolition and mines. He and his wife, Ruth, have a son who is presently studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Asked by newsmen why he wanted to settle in Israel, Hacket said, “I visited this country several times and there is something about this country that get me.”
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