Israel absorbed 8 percent fewer immigrants in 1997 than in 1996, according to an Immigration Ministry spokesman. The 66,000 immigrants, who are mainly from Russia and Ukraine, included 1,800 Ethiopian Jews. The Jewish Agency for Israel had predicted that 50,000 immigrants would move to Israel this year.
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