Three dozen immigrants from Belarus, scheduled to land on Sunday, were pre-approved for aliyah and will spend their first two weeks quarantined in designated hotels.
Hiddush, a religious freedom organization, releases erroneous number, obtained through a freedom of information request, also claiming 70% of US immigrants are non-Jews.
Central Bureau of Statistics figures show that 28,099 new immigrants arrived in Jewish state, with over two-thirds moving from former Soviet countries.
A special hotline for Jews of Venezuela has been opened to respond to their spiking interest in moving to Israel as their country’s political instability intensifies.