An official of the Absorption Ministry has called for measures to reduce the rate of returnees (yordim) among immigrants from Western nations, Hillel Ashkenazi, director general of the Ministry, said nine percent of the Immigrants leave Israel after the first year and another three percent depart after their second year here.
He said there were no returnees among immigrants from Eastern Europe. A small number of Jewish emigres from the Soviet Union have left Israel after immigrating here. Ashkenazi referred to a high rate of returnees to France where special allowances are paid for children. There is no such allowance in Israel, He urged the adoption of absorption policies that would diminish the number of returnees. According to Ashkenazi, 90 percent of the students who come to Israel as Immigrants remain here after completing their studies.
A report published in Jerusalem by the Labor Ministry said that about 1400 new immigrants out of 1700 who sought jobs to the month of April were working by the end of the month. The immigrants, a majority of them from Eastern Europe, arrived during April. The job-seekers were all over 18 and were not university graduates, the report said. Vocational training courses and related services were extended to the remaining twenty percent of Job-seekers who were unable to find Jobs by the end of the month.
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