Six of Iraq’s 34 remaining Jews will make aliyah on Friday. A specially-chartered plane is scheduled to depart Iraq Friday evening, carrying the six elderly Iraqis and Rachel Zelon, a vice president of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which is leading the operation with the Jewish Agency for Israel.
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