Immigration of Jews into Israel in 1963 was “the largest in recent years,” and included newcomers from 66 countries around the world, according to a report to the Jewish Agency executive today from the head of the Agency” absorption department. The report stated that the immigrants had been “absorbed easily.”
Of the total of the immigrants who had come in 1963, 790 were professionals, including 200 physicians and 243 engineers. The absorption chief stated, however, that there is need for tailors, carpenters and technicians. He said there had been calls for the employment of “several times” more in these categories than the numbers who had arrived.
The 1963 figures showed that Jewish immigrants from South America numbered 5,000, compared with 1,259 Jews who had emigrated to Israel from Latin America lands in 1962.
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