The Iraq Government has officially announced the ending of the emigration of Israel-bound Iraqi Jews as of March 1, 1951, the Near East Radio declared in a broadcast heard here today.
There are some 92,000 Iraqi Jews who have registered for emigration who will lose their Iraqi citizenship and remain stranded in the Arab country unless they can get out by March 1 or the deadline is extended.
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