The National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported Friday that the total number of Jews who left the Soviet Union in December was 889, which brought the total of emigrating Jews during 1980 to 24,471. The NCSJ said the 1980 total represented a 58 percent decline from the reported 51,320 Jews who emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1979.
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