The United Hias Service announced Monday that 16 Jewish immigrants, comprising four family units, arrived at Kennedy Airport on three separate flights last week. The new arrivals included former Chief Rabbi Chaim Douek of Egypt and three members of his family who were reunited with relatives in Brooklyn, and three families from the Soviet Union who joined their families in Greater New York. Six of the newcomers from the USSR came here under the US Attorney General’s parole authority.
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