A group of 12 halutzim left Rio de Janeiro today for Israel. They will join a Mapai kibbutz when they arrive in the Jewish State. This is the third group of halutzim to leave Brazil this year. In all some 300 Brazilian Jewish youths-have left for pioneering in Israel since 1948.
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