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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky “welcomed home” 238 new immigrants (olim) from the United States and Canada Tuesday morning in an emotional arrival ceremony.
“For the first time in 2,000 years, there are more Jews in Israel than there are outside of Israel,” the Prime Minister noted. “After the Roman invasion, we went from one catastrophe to another. Because of your effort and our efforts, we are close to six million Jews and the number is going to grow, and grow and grow because the future of Jews is here in Israel,” he added.
Sharansky thanked the new arrivals who helped campaign for his own freedom when he was a Prisoner of Zion in the former Soviet Union and reminded the olim that they will be experiencing Biblical history wherever they will be living and traveling in Israel.
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