Some 250 North American Jews made aliyah. The planeload of immigrants, which landed Wednesday at Ben-Gurion International Airport, is the seventh such flight in 2005 sponsored by Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organization that facilitates aliyah for Jews from the United States and Canada, and the Jewish Agency for Israel.
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