Thirty-two Jewish students who emigrated from Cochin, India, where there has been a Jewish community for more than 400 years, have received stipends from the Jewish Agency to assist them while they study. The stipends, presented by Agency director general Moshe Rivlin, total $7143–or $223 per student–a sum the Agency has decided to put aside each year for immigrants from Cochin.
There are some 5000 Jewish immigrants from Cochin in Israel; 17 years ago there were about 1800. There were an estimated 500 Jews in Cochin 15 years ago but only an estimated 100 there in 1968.
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