Herut-Hanoar, the youth movement of the Herut Party, called for mass immigration into Israel from the affluent countries of the West. Menachem Beigin, the party’s head and minister without portfolio in Israel’s coalition government, told the European conference here that the very existence of Israel depended on immigration.
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