Israel: a recession in number of immigrants

The Israeli Ministry of Immigrant Absorption announced on Thursday on the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of the foundation of Israel that Israel had received some 16,000 immigrants from the former states of the Soviet Union during the year 2000. The migration to Israel witnesses in the year 2000 a recession as the number of immigrants to it decreased from 78,000 in 1999 to 11,250 in the year 2000.