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203,489 Jews Entered Israel in 1951, Jewish Agency Reports

February 18, 1952
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The Jewish Agency announced yesterday that 203,489 immigrants entered Israel in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1951. The figure for the calendar year 1951was 174,706, of whom 113,842 came from Moslem countries and some 20 percent from countries behind the Iron Curtain.

The largest single group, 84,340, came from Iraq; the second largest group, 41,101, came from Rumania. Other sizable immigrant blocs included 18,378 from North Africa and Libya and 11,124 from Iran.

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