835 new immigrants are expected to arrive in Israel this week on Aliyah. Among them are 359 immigrants from the United States. The group will arrive on a special El-Al flight, organized by the Nefesh B’Nefesh organization, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, the Jewish Agency and the Ministry of Absorption. The group is the part of an initial contingent of 531 American immigrants arriving this summer.



Others to arrive on Aliyah this week: 110 from the Ukraine, 100 from the central Asian Republics of the Former Soviet Union and the Caucasus; 91 from Russia, 64 from France, 60 from Argentina, 15 from Canada, and the remainder from the UK, Brazil and Panama.