Some 1,020 Rumanian immigrants disembarked from the transport Transylvania yesterday and 600 Jewish immigrants from Poland landed at Haifa. Another contingent of 584 Jews landed in Haifa today after arriving from Marseille aboard the Negba.
More than 2,700 tourists visited Israel last month, while a total of 10,280 tourists arrived in this country in the past four months, official statistics revealed here today.
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