Over half-a-million Israelis emigrated from 1969 to 1979 and there was a net loss of over 126,000 according to a study by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs just published. The report, prepared by Yitzhak Berman of the Ministry’s data unit, said a total of 384,064 new immigrants arrived during those 10 years and 510,528 of them and other Israelis left the country. Emigration peaked in 1974, after the Yom Kippur War.
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