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From the Liveblog of Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Ukraine sends largest number of new immigrants

22 April 2015, 4:22 pm

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Ahead of Independence Day, the Ministry of Immigration and Immigrant Absorption records nearly 28,000 new immigrants since last year — the largest number of whom hail from war-torn Ukraine.

Some 27,933 new immigrants will celebrate their first Independence Day as citizens on Thursday, the ministry says in a statement. Of those, 6,996 are from Ukraine, 6,377 are from France, 5,040 from Russia, and 3,208 are from the US.

New immigrants from USA and Canada arrive on a special 'Aliyah Flight 2014' on behalf of the Jewish Agency and the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben-Gurion airport in central Israel, August 12, 2014. (Gideon Markowicz/FLASH90) — New immigrants from USA and Canada arrive on a special ‘Aliyah Flight 2014’ on behalf of the Jewish Agency and the Nefesh B’Nefesh organization, at Ben-Gurion airport in central Israel, August 12, 2014. (Gideon Markowicz/FLASH90)

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