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P«!« 16 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE March 3, 1978
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The number of people coming to
settle in Israel in December 1977
showed that the increasing trend of
aliyah continued, though at a
reduced level from previous
months.
A total of 1,924 people arrived,
an increase of 1 percent over
December 1976. These new
imigrants managed to push the
year’s total over the 20,000 mark,
and the provisional sum for the
whole of 1977 indicates that the
21,456 new arrivals represent an
approximate 8.6 percent increase
in comparison with 1976's total of
19,754.
The number of Russian
immigrants rose to 967 (an
increase of 33 over last December’s
figure), a 3.5 percent monthly
difference. Taking the year as a
whole, the difference is 14.7
percent which, in terms of people,
means another 1,072 Soviet Jews
arrived over and above 1976’s
7,279, making the total for 1977
8,351.
North America still retains
second place in providing the
greatest number of new
^immigrants, but only just. While
there was a small 9 percent increase
in numbers over the previous
December, from 167 to 182
persons, the annual total for 1977
shows a slight decline by 58
persons to a figure of 2,921,
making a 2 percent drop.
Close on the heels of the North
American sub-continent is
Western Europe, with a year’s total
of 2,873. This is a 2.6 percent
ALIYAH TOTALS FOR SELECTED COUNTRIES
Total no. Immigrants
Total no. immigrants
DEC. 1977
Dec. 1976
% Change
Year 1977
Year 1976
% £hange
Australia
14
21
- 33°/o
213
209
+ 2%
Belgium
3
5
- 40%
125
82
+ 52.5%
Canada
15
12
+ 25%
337
279
+ 20.7%
France
79
143
- 44.7%
1,225
1,416
- 13.4%
Germany
7
10
-30%
120
130
- 7.6%
Holland
7
10
- 30%
133
122
+ 9%
Italy
8
13
- 38.5%
137
127
+ 7.8%
New Zealand
2
—
—
12
10
+ 20%
South Africa
92
52
+ 77%
1,430
585
+ 144%
Switzerland
1
—
—
116
113
+ 2.6%
United Kingdom
72
45
+ 60%
840
592
+ 41.8%
United States
167
155
+ 7.7%
2,600
2,700
- 3.7%
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increase over 1976’s 2,799,
although in the month of
December, 1977 a 23 percent drop
occurred. In absolute figures, this
means that 197 persons came on
aliyah in December, 1977 as
compared to 256 in December,
1976.
Argentina continued to provide
over a third of the South American
immigrants, with 2,158 settlers in
the year 1977, making for a 33.5
percent increase. Once again,
however, the December 1977
figures showed a small decline of
15 fewer people than December,
1976, with the month’s total 170—
an 8 percent fall.
However, it is Africa which
produces the figures for the largest
increases in immigration. The
annual total from North and
Central Africa in 1977 shows a
doubling of the previous year’s
figure from 112 to 225. Most of the
increase, it appears, occurred in
December. In 1976 the monthly
total was 11, a year later there were
73 new immigrants.
While those last figures might
well show a freak month, the same
does not apply to South Africa’s
steady increases. In the month of
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December, 1977 a modest 77
percent is recorded which, in real
terms, means 40 more people
coming in that month over the
previous year’s monthly total of
52. Looking at the year's final
figures, a 144 percent increase is
calculated from the total of 1,429
as against 585 the previous year.
The only other major statistic
which emerged from the monthly
report of the Department of
Immigration and Absorption of
the Jewish Agency is that the drop
out rate of Soviet Jews arriving at
Vienna has also increased, this
time to 50.7 percent, and the
monthly figure of drop-outs
coincides exactly with that for the
year of 1977 as a whole.
Jews for Jesus
to hit major cities
NEW YORK, (JT A) —
According to information just
received by the Task Force on
Missionary Activity of the Jewish
Community Relations Council of
New York (JCRC), the Jews for
Jesus and other Hebrew Christian
groups are planning to establish
centers in cities where they have
active branches for the purpose of
providing shelter for “those Jews
cast out because of their faith in
Jesus.”
They acknowledge that this is a
departure from former practices
and more closely associates them
with other missionary groups.
They also intend to increase their
on-campus presence and activities,
the JCRC reported
JCRC Task Force chairman
Seymour Lachman said that the
establishment of permanent
residences would add an
additional dimension that will
require appropriate responses
from the Jewish community.
The Task Force has advocated
the estaWishment of temporary
residence'centers to which people
could come for guidance and
assistance. Lachman added that
such facilities with appropriate
supervision would be especially
important as an address to which
young people finding themselves
drawn to missionary or cult groups
can turn.
Jews for Jesus are also utilizing
their “Liberated Wailing Wall”
group to stage evangelistic
concerts featuring "Jewish Gospel
Music,” testimonies and short
messages, the JCRC reported.
With this, as well as other front
groups, they are seeking access to
campuses with large Jewish
student bodies recognizing that
this is likely to lead to
confrontations. Recently they
appeared at Hofstra, Queens
College and other area campuses.
KGB entraps
Jewish activists
NEW YORK—Al Tidom
Association sources in the USSR
report that the Soviet police have
embarked upon a new campaign to
entrap its Jews, especially activists.
Incriminating literature and
religious articles are “planted”
prior to surprise searches.
Several instances in Moscow
and Leningrad have occurred of
late in which KGB agents staged
unannounced searches of
refusniks’ apartments and
uncovered letters, books and
religious texts never before seen by
the apartment dwellers. It was only
a few days ago that the new KGB
strategy was uncovered. When no
one is home, agents enter
apartment and hide
the
t he
incriminating objects to be
“discovered" later.
The latest victim was Arkady
Sasoff, a 40-year old Moscow
engineer who, upon his return
from work, found signs of a break-
in and a search of his bookshelves,
desk drawers and his bed. Much to
his surprise, Sasoffs careful
examination revealed that instead
of losing something, he now had
“new belongings, a book of poems
by Bialik and a Siddur."
Sasoff, according to Al Tidom,
immediately contacted the police.
When Major Fuanov heard the
story, he denied the story, berated
the Jew, and threatened to arrest
him for slandering the Soviet
State.
