The number of North Americans who emigrated to Israel in 1976 showed a slight upswing, according to statistics released by the Israel Aliya Center. More dramatic, however, was the increased number of Israelis who returned home to Israel in the same period. According to statistics, 2545 North Americans were processed through the 16 offices of the Israel Aliya Center in the United States and Canada in 1976 compared to 2357 in 1975.
A spokesman for the center pointed out that the overall increase from North America was actually greater than the eight percent indicated because these statistics reflected only those North Americans who left for Israel with A-1 immigrant visas (temporary resident) as a result of processing through an Israel Aliya Center and included neither those who immigrated without assistance nor those already in Israel as students or tourists who changed their status to A-1. The number of Israelis who returned to Israel with the assistance of the Israel Aliya Center increased 177 percent from 842 to 2334.
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