WORLD : Party Over for Israel Immigrant
Israel’s 100,000th immigrant this year was greeted with great fanfare on arrival, but he said today that he and his family were left stranded at the airport when the hoopla was over.
“After the big hubbub was finished, we were the last ones at the airport, and we didn’t have a place to stay,” said 87-year-old Yitzhak Krasiltchik, who emigrated from Leningrad in the Soviet Union.
Krasiltchik arrived in Israel on Tuesday on a flight with 140 other Soviet immigrants.
The immigration absorption minister, Yitzhak Peretz, met him at Ben-Gurion Airport, and he was whisked by limousine to the arrivals lounge, where children serenaded him.
But after Peretz and journalists left, Krasiltchik found that he and his family had missed the bus to their destination, the town of Arad in the southern Negev Desert.
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