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Israeli Minister to Moscow Reports 500,000 Jews Now Reside in Soviet Capital

January 7, 1949
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Mrs. Golda Meirson, Israeli Minister to the Soviet Union, declared here today that there are 500,000 Jews living in Moscow at present. ## Israeli diplomat, en route from Tel Aviv to Prague, held a closed meeting here last night with Israeli officials concerned with the problem of DP immigration to the Jewish state.

Mrs. Meirson also brought the Israeli emissaries here up to date on the our-##ent military, political, economic and immigration situation in Israeli. The delay in Israel’s acceptance of the latest U.N. Security Council cease-fire and withdrawal order## the Negev, she told correspondents today, does not mean that the U.N.’s efforts to ?ring peace to Palestine have failed.

Shimon Arlasaroff, son of the late Zionist leader Chaim Arlasaroff who was Assassinated in Palestine in 1933, was among the graduates of a Jewish pilot training school.

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