Some 3,600 asylum seekers in Israel left the country since 2014 for Western nations, Channel 2 reports.
The largest group, 2,200, went to Canada. Holland took 381, Sweden 359, the United States 320, Switzerland 90, Norway 86 and Germany 66.
The asylum seekers, most of whom hail from Eritrea, are given a free plane ticket and $3,500 in cash by the government, if they agree to leave. Many of the receiving countries, such as Canada, condition their arrival on successful completion of a course that confers on the migrants a trade.
Some 20,000 have left Israel in recent years, less than a third of the over 60,000 who arrived in the country before the erection of a border fence on Israel’s border with the Sinai stopped the migration.
Israel has struck agreements with Uganda and Rwanda to absorb some of the asylum seekers, and many have gone to those countries.
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