Three hundred and thirty thousand Jews have emigrated from Israel since the establishment of the State, according to a report presented to the Cabinet Sunday by Absorption Minister Yaacov Tsur. These figures are substantially lower than previous estimates of between 500,000 and 750,000. The report, compiled by the Central Bureau of Statistics, also noted that a further 120,000 non-Jews had left during this period. Some 170,000 “yordim” (emigrants) live in the U.S., according to the report. Thirty-two thousand of them are academically educated, including about 8,000 engineers.
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