Several parties of North African immigrants have arrived within the past few days. One group today moved into the Geffen settlement, a Poale Mizrachi unit and the 15th to be founded in the Lachish district southwest of Jerusalem this year. Another group of 35 youths was taken to a Youth Aliyah home at Ramat Hadassah.
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