Some 4,500 people attended an aliyah fair hosted by the Jewish Agency for Israel in France. The Jewish Agency said that during the fair in Marseille, some 700 people filled out the personal questionnaire that is the first step of the aliyah process, and 40 families asked to emigrate immediately.
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