1,470 Soviet Jews Emigrated in June; 127 Went to Israel
Soviet authorities allowed 1,470 Jews to leave in June, the sixth straight rise in the monthly emigration total, but only 127 of the migrants went to Israel, a resettlement agency said Friday.
It was the highest number of Jews allowed out of the Soviet Union since June, 1980, when 1,767 left the country, according to figures published by the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration.
In May, 1,145 Jews left the Soviet Union.
A total of 6,017 have emigrated this year, which compares with 8,011 for all of 1987, the agency said.
The 127 Soviet Jews who went to Israel after arriving at the agency’s Vienna transit center in June brought to 840 the number who chose the Jewish state this year.
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