A group of 240 youths from the former Soviet Union arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport to begin new lives in Israel. Since the beginning of the year, 26,902 new immigrants have arrived, 20,006 of them from former Soviet states, according to the Jewish Agency for Israel.
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