Aliyah Up 6.7 Percent in Early 2014
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A group of 125 future IDF soldiers at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York in August 2013, before they depart for their Nefesh B'Nefesh aliyah flight. Photo: Shahar Azran.
JNS.org – January 2014 saw a 6.7-percent rise in the number of new immigrants to Israel compared to the same month in 2013, data from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) shows.
A total of 1,218 immigrants arrived in Israel in January 2014, compared to 1,141 in January 2013.
According to the CBS statistics, the January 2014 numbers project to a total annual aliyah of 20,500 for 2014, compared to 19,200 in 2013 and 18,900 in 2012.
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