Some 100 immigrants arrived in Israel during the past 24 hours, an unprecedented number of immigrants for one day for a number of years. The largest number of them, 42, arrived on one flight from the United States. Most of the immigrants were 20 to 35 years old and university graduates. Mor-dechai Hirsch, of the Jewish Agency’s Immigration and Absorption Department, said he hoped a similar number of immigrants would come from the U.S. next month. He said that as a result of the “Peace for Galilee” operation there was greater interest in aliya among American Jewry.
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