A group of 179 Jewish emigrants – the largest group to receive Rumanian exit visas this year – will sail for Israel tomorrow aboard the Rumanian liner Transylvania.
The group includes 142 Rumanian nationals and 29 others, one of them a 68-year old woman of Soviet nationality sailing to join her children in the Kfar Gileadi settlement.
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