Two planes carrying 70 Jewish immigrants from India landed in Israel today, the Jewish Agency announced this evening.
The announcement added that 10, 882 immigrants had arrived in this country since January 1, some 2,400 of them this month. Two teams of three persons each are going to Morocco and Tunisia to arrange for large-scale immigration to Israel from those countries, the announcement revealed.
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