A small but steady flow of Jewish emigration to Israel from Turkey has been stopped as one of the side-effects of the Suez Canal crisis. The shortage of heavy oil created by the Canal closing has forced cancellation of service by Turkish ships operating on foreign lines, including a regular Istanbul-Haifa run.
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