Forty Jews from war-torn Sarajevo are expected to fly to Israel early Friday morning, the Jewish Agency for Israel has announced.
Residents of that strife-ridden city have lived in terror since war broke out among the republics that once comprised Yugoslavia.
More than 400 Jews from the former Yugoslavia have found refuge here since fighting broke out. Another 200 children are being housed in Youth Aliyah villages throughout the country for the duration of the war.
On Tuesday, an Israeli air force Hercules transport flew 15 tons of food and medicine to Zagreb, the Croatian capital. The supplies, which were bound for Sarajevo, constitute the first official government aid to the region. Non-government agencies have already sent assistance.
In other aliyah news, more than 200 Jews arrived from Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Another 255 arrived from Moscow; Minsk, Belarus; and Tbilisi, Georgia.
“Immigration is definitely up from the Moslem republics of the former Soviet Union,” said Jewish Agency spokesman Boaz Shviger.
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