Seventeen more Jews from Iraq landed in Israel yesterday - two families of seven people each and three singles who lived in the Kurdish areas. They left Iraq ten days ago, crossed the border into Turkey, and boarded a plane for Israel in Istanbul. They were greeted at Ben Gurion International Airport by Absorption Minister Tzippy Livni, and they will live at first in Be'er Sheva.
Jewish Agency officials recently spent several weeks looking for Jews in Iraq, and found 34. Six of them made aliyah last month, thus that only 11 Jews remain in what was once, some 1,500 years ago, the Torah center of the world.