Most of the Jews who left the Soviet Union in February with Israeli visas but “dropped out” in Vienna came from the large cities of European Russia, the Jewish Agency’s immigration department disclosed in its monthly report released today. All of the dropouts were under 40 years of age and most were university graduates, mainly with engineering degrees. According to the report, 523 of more than 1000 Soviet Jews ostensibly bound for Israel last month, remained in Vienna to seek visas for other countries–a dropout rate of 49 percent. Most of them came from Moscow. Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa. The aliya picture from other parts of the world showed increases from South Africa and from Latin America, especially Argentina. But the total number of olim for the month was 1445, a decrease of 284 from February, 1976.
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