Immigration to Israel is down fifty percent this year compared with last year. This figure was reported by Jewish Agency Chairman Pinhas Sapir this week at a meeting of the government-Agency “joint coordinating committee” chaired by Premier Yitzhak Rabin. The total figure for January to May inclusive is around 6000 (half of them from the USSR) compared to 12,000 (with over 7000 of them from the Soviet Union) in the same period last ?
The committee meeting–the first held since the Rabin government took over a year ago today–was attended by thirteen ministers apart from the Premier and an equal number of Agency officials. Among the proposals raised: the establishment of a faculty of “absorption students” in one of the universities. No decisions were taken during the four-hour session–but Rabin said be wanted the committee to meet again on his return from Washington later this month.
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